[NTLUG:Discuss] (no subject)

[Graham Wilson]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:42:41PM +0000, dearroz at comcast.net wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:24:44PM -0500, Wayne Walker wrote:
> > In theory, you could use 255.255.255.200 and 192.168.1.64.
>
>  :( on BSD, but not on linux.  linux's ifconfig command considers the
> netmask 255.255.255.200 as invalid.

Isn't that because that *is* an invalid netmask? In binary:

 255.255.255.200 == 11111111 11111111 11111111 00100000

AIUI netmasks have to be a list of ones followed by a list of zeros, but
I could be wrong.

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gram