At 11:38 AM 05/25/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> > Ah. The three IPs are in a block. I sit corrected.
>I dont believe so... There is no such thing as a block of 3 IP's AFAIK,
>you can make a subnet of 8 ip's, inwhich you use 3 of them for your net
>(network, gateway, and broadcast, addresses,
Not quite:
on 8, you lose just 2. that's 6.
check out
http://www.agt.net/public/sparkman/netcalc.htm
that's /29 netting
> So... probably he has 3 ip's in a block of 256, with a netmask of
>255.255.255.0 (which means he has 3 ip's in someone elses network, which
>is really quite different!)
maybe not. He might have 3 in a a block of 6, or might have 3 in a
block of 14, etc...
2 ips can be blocked as /30 btw, with 4 ips used total.
I guess the real question to ask is, your existing netmask is WHAT?
that would answer the question.
Seth
