From: vspr@teppic.sun.ac.za (Paul van Spronsen) Subject: Re: ARP and SUBNETTING problems with NET-2 Date: 29 Jun 1993 07:13:20 GMT
Dieter Eubell [CIP] (eubell@physik.uni-kl.de) wrote:
: The university of Kaiserslautern has a class B net (131.246.0.0) and
: uses 5 bit subnetting.
: The IP address of my linux box is 131.246.10.204 and the name of it is
: The subnetmask for my computer is 255.255.248.0, the netmask is
5 bit subnetting implies netmask 255.255.255.224 (all bits set except the
last five)
=> net address (ip & netmask) = 131.246.10.192
=> broadcast (ip | !netmask) = 131.246.10.223
Did I just make a complete fool of myself, or is this where the problem
is?
Paul van Spronsen
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