Who said it was an octet?

                                        BB

Krpata, Tyler wrote:
Nor do they support octets in IPv4 addresses that are greater than 8
bits...

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From: Blue Boar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [funsec] *groan*

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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