On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Anyway so i put my address in as > 192.168.1. 40 > > with a subnet of > > 255.255.255.240 > > > "it" (being the tcpip stack of X favourite OS) will know im refering to > the block > > 192.168.1.32 thru 192.168.1.47 Correctimundo. Well, provided the IP stack understands subnet masking properly - no guarantees with M$ stuff. :-) > ok thats pretty cool > > when i make my route however, what is the network?? (or -net x.x.x.x ) The network address will be 192.168.1.32, with the same subnet mask. You _must_ specify the subnet mask, or the routing software will either error out, or ignore you and assume 192.168.1.0 as the network address. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
