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

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