In a message dated: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:37:06 EST
Derek Martin said:
>You can not have a subnet mask of .254, because this leaves you with
>only two possible combinations in each range, the network address and
>the broadcast address... no room for hosts. And obviously a subnet mask
>of .255 is (almost) completely useless...
Actually, that's not true. You can use .254, and it will work. I don't
actually know *why* you'd want to, but I know it can be done.
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Seeya,
Paul
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