RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar
The network mask assigned to eth0, as reported [255.255.252.0] by ifconfig, seems to be incorrect. Never heard about classless subnets in Class B networks. You probably have a Class C (/24) network [255.255.255.0] or a classless subnet of a Class C network, like [255.255.255.252]. --- Alencar

Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The network mask assigned to eth0, as reported [255.255.252.0] by ifconfig, seems to be incorrect. Never heard about classless subnets in Class B networks. You probably have a Class C (/24) network [255.255.255.0] or a classless subnet of

RES: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing

2001-02-15 Thread Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar
Always learning. Thanks, David. -Mensagem original- De: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: Quinta-feira, 15 de Fevereiro de 2001 11:55 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Assunto: Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade

Muddled explanation of classed vs. classless IPs (was Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing)

2001-02-15 Thread Colin Cashman
I don't know what all this is about. Still, it woke me up. I was just reading this in one of the TCP/IP books I have, so I'll take a stab at explaining it (and let somebody else explain the errors). IP addresses are divided into host portions and network portions. The host portion is assigned