On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Dennis Musselwhite wrote: > You probably heard this from me. Our Guest LAN simulation does NOT use > the netmask value to direct or filter the IP frames sent over Guest LAN. > When I first learned that the netmask was available on the command that > is used to register an IP address, I thought it would be useful to display > the associated netmask. I assumed it would be the "subnet mask" and the > QUERY LAN with DETAILS would help determine if somebody had configured a > bad > netmask. In practice, the drivers seem to be sending the "network mask" > instead of the "subnet mask" so this display is not as helpful as I would > have hoped.
Dennis, I was not meaning to "have a go". Thanks for clearing it up. The intention is sound: you're right, being able to verify all of the subnet masks from a Q LAN DET would be very helpful; it's a shame it does not appear to work that way :-) Regards, Vic Cross
