Its acurate only as far as your subnet mask is concerned. Better terminology would be that without a default gateway being defined, a machine can only connect to other machines on the same physical subnet.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: MHR(Michael Ross) [mailto:mhr@;panduit.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 4:53 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [ActiveDir] statement > > > How accurate is this?? > > #1: A default/static route is used to reach networks outside > of your local broadcast domain. So if you disable your > default route (on your computer, try it), you'll still be > able to get to everything on 172.x.y.0/22. Meaning you can > reach everything from 172.16.x.y to 172.16.a.b, reserving > 172.16.x.0 for your network and 172.16.a.255 for your broadcast. > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
