Hi, after seeing a post here using CIDR, I re-read some manual pages. I have been using aliases, but it looks like using CIDR is the preferred method. Could someone explain that a little better than the manual pages do? An example might help better to explain why aliases are used when changing network numbers. Is it a short term fix? Is there a downside to using aliases vs CIDR?
My other question is what to put for the address. I have 104.149.1.112/28. Should I just put this? 113 is the gateway. What is 112? It doesn't ping. 113 pings even if the rest is inaccessible. There was a mysterious problem that I had to get tech support to fix. Signal not present. Whatever that meant. This is a cheap clearance bare metal, so IPMI/KVM is Java based and I can't work with that. I have an old version of OpenBSD that worked somewhere for that, but it doesn't work here. So I don't want to have tech support login. I know, simple questions, but my search engine skills really don't work. Thanks, Chris Bennett
