Hi Shaul Karl, it's a long time ago that i read network things to get my modem working, what i understand about it, i write to you i am nowhere near an expert on this
i think that hosts on other networks can get netmask of this network number of zeros at end of netmask tells them how big network is, they assume each network has a network address (ending in all zeros) and a broadcast address (ending in all ones) i dont know how hosts on other network get at this netmask, (read libc docs to see if they have a syscall for that) i just checked these : you can get 'network part' of an address, which tells you size of network, so hosts on other networks can indeed find out netmask. > My question is how does the 2 smaller networks know that 192.168.1.191 > and 192 were initially a broadcast and network addresses? they look at netmask, and if that is all they know about that network, then they assume that it has network- and broadcast-adresses > Would they treat any one of 192.168.*.19[12] in the same way? only if its netmask was same > Is this a software (kernel?) issue > or does it inherent to the Ethernetprotocol? neither, this is part of Internet Protocol i think, and IPv6 is yet different i hope i didnt mislead you more than i helped you, Siward --------------------------------------------------------------------------- you realize that external modems are cheaper than winmodems when you take into account that second hand value of a linux-capable modem is much higher -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]