> > > > And its that simple, in a subnet with a mask of 255.255.255.240, you have > > 15 available addresses. BUT. Remever, with IP addressing the lowest > > address (all 0's in the host space) is the network address (identifies the > > subnet) and the highest address (all 1's in the host space) is the > > broadcast address. So you only really have 13 addresses that you can use > > for your actual hosts in the subnet. > > You actually have 16 addresses in this range, with 14 useable. IP > numbering starts from ZERO - in other words, ZERO is a valid IP address - > so your range is from 0 to 15 - with 0 being the network address, and 15 > being the broadcast address. when you use a subnet like 255.255.255.240 which 14 address's can be used? with 255.255.255.0 is all 255 in the last byte, eg 192.168.0.x with 255.255.255.240 is it the last 14 address's? can i use it to take a chunk from the middle? eg. 192.168.0.15 - 30? Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
