In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Irfan Akber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From Subnetworking mini Howto:
>
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>Network Broadcast Netmask Hosts
> 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.63 255.255.255.192 62
> 192.168.1.64 192.168.1.127 255.255.255.192 62
> 182.168.1.128 192.168.1.255 255.255.255.126 124 (see note)
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Note: the reason the last network has only 124 usable network
> addresses (not 126 as would be expected from the network mask) is that
> it is really a 'super net' of two subnetworks. Hosts on the other two
> networks will interpret 192.168.1.192 as the network address of the
> 'non-existent' subnetwork. Similarly, they will interpret
> 192.168.1.191 as the broadcast address of the 'non-existent'
> subnetwork.
>
> So, if you use 192.168.1.191 or 192 as host addresses on the third
> network, then machines on the two smaller networks will not be able to
> communicate with them.
Well that's absolute and utter nonsense.
Mike.
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