Actually, this is the first time I've heard subnetting explained in a way that actually made sense. Kudos! And thank you!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Wenzel" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] WAN LAN1 and LAN2 (OPT1) > > My apologies, I meant Network layer, not Transport. Sheesh. Serves me right for spamming the list with general info (as I spam it again with my correction ;) > > > <snip> > > So there 4 bits in the 2nd octet, 8 bits in the 3rd octet, and 8 bits in the 4th octet that are valid for use as IPs on the "local" subnet (the +'s represent bits that, if changed, would tell the Transport layer that the IP is not local... the -'s are bits you can change to give yourself IPs local to your subnet. Note that they correspond to the 1's and 0's of the netmask). > > </snip> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
