[NTLUG:Discuss] Broadcast addresses

[Mark Bickel]

> From discuss-admin at ntlug.org Thu Jul 13 13:54 CDT 2000
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> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:53:38 GMT
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> You are correct in that the netmask is 255.255.254.0 and this is not a class c 
> network, it's 172.28.49.xxx

Actually, for a netmask of 255.255.254.0 the subnet number would be 172.28.48.0
and the broadcast address would be 172.28.49.255, leaving 510 possible hosts in
the subnet with addresses in the range 172.28.48.1 through 172.28.49.254, although
you probably wouldn't want to use 172.28.48.255 or 172.28.49.0. The network number
and network mask can be represented together thus: 172.28.48.0/23 meaning that the
23 most significant bits are the subnet, leaving the remaining 9 bits for hosts 
within the subnet.  9
                   2 =512

Mark.Bickel at ericsson.com
  
> > 
> >   If you plug it back in, it should work fine.  It could be your netmask
> > was not 255.255.255.0 for a class c address.
> > 
> > bug
> >