So for me  *.255 are usable exept 3.255, correct?

Stefan

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Heaton, Joseph@DFG <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> .255 is broadcast
> >>
> >>  Not always.
> >
> > Very true, if we go and break up a class C, that is absolutely true.
>  But,
> > seeing as he's going the other way, and making the subnet bigger, not
> smaller...
>
>  ".255" is still not always the broadcast address.  For example, in a
> /23, there will be two addresses where the dotted-decimal ends in
> ".255".  One will be the broadcast address, and the other will just be
> a regular host.
>
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