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Sometime on Jun 22, Manish Jethani assembled some asciibets to say:
> > You have IP addresses: 202.54.1.18, 192.168.0.1, 127.0.0.1,
> > 89.1.1.200 Now the big question is, how do you figure out what part
> > of an IP address is the network address, and which part is the actual
> > machine number.
>
> So two different computers on the Internet may have the same IP
> address, with different subnet masks? And if not, then what happens
No no no. All IPs have to be unique. The netmask only tells other
you how many machines can be on a particular network and which machines
are on that network. Class A networks always have a netmask of 255.0.0.0,
Class B - 255.255.0.0, Class C - 255.255.255.0 etc.
> when all the IPs get used (let's say at one time, there're more
> clients on the Net than the max possible no. of IPs)?
Look at a smaller scenario. Your ISP has a pool of lets assume 254 IP
addresses. You are person number 255 to connect. You get an error
message (in windows) The computer you are dialling cannot negotiate a
compatible set of protocols please try later.
Basically, that means that the DHCPd (man dhcpd) could not handle your
request because it was either too busy, or did not have any more IPs to
give you.
Philip
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