Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:
OK, I'm thinking it's a subnet mask, and the significance of 255 is easy to figure.
240 and 252 less so, but at least they are within range. But 257?
I have encountered many people who don't believe in non-contiguous
subnet masks. To be fair, a number of OSes don't support them anymore.
BB
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