Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & HannRe: [funsec] *groan* 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?

Well, some TCP/IP stacks and/or the higher-level applications using IP 
addresses have in the past/will rollover "improperly large" component 
parts of the address.  Thus, 257 _may_ actually be 2...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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