Networking novice needs help

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

That would only be on really old stacks.  Routing has been classless for
some time now.  Windows 98 and above don't seem to give me any problems
with larger masks...

j

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Edmund Craske wrote:

> I'm sure any networks above 191.x.x.x can't be any larger than class C.
> If it works for you, then so be it... But I'm sure my Windows machines
> wouldn't let me set a netmask like that for a 192.168 address...
> 
> Edmund Craske
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freebsd-users-admin at uk.freebsd.org
> [mailto:freebsd-users-admin at uk.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Civati
> Sent: 30 November 2002 22:19
> To: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Networking novice needs help 
> 
> 
> "Kevin O Connor" <kevin at rainford.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > While I was there, I tried pinging out to 192.168.1.0, and
> > 
> > 192.168.1.0 is NOT a valid node address it belongs to the network.
> > Have you
> > assigned this address to one of your cards?
> 
> That almost caught me out too, it is valid on a /16 subnet, it wouldn't
> be on a /24 though.
> 
> 192.168.0.0 is the network address on a /16.
> 
> -Paul-
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