Re: what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions

2000-07-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:03:21AM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:08:02AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: Q: what's the 224.0.0.0 ip/netmask for? That's for multicast. I don't know much about multicast, maybe someone else can help there. According to Stevens TCP/IP

Re: what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions

2000-06-23 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:08:02AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: Q: what's the 224.0.0.0 ip/netmask for? That's for multicast. I don't know much about multicast, maybe someone else can help there. Q: what's the scheme behind ports '* - *'? From any port to any port. Jun 20 00:18:00 server

what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions

2000-06-22 Thread Will Trillich
Here are some newbie-like networking questions that i hope some of you experts can elucidate for me: On my `ipfwadm -leO` output i notice among other rules... IP firewall output rules, default policy: deny pkts bytes type prot opt tosa tosx source destination ports 0 0 acc udp

Re: what's 224.0.0.0 -- and other newbie net-questions

2000-06-22 Thread Robert Heine
Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my `ipfwadm -leO` output i notice among other rules... IP firewall output rules, default policy: deny pkts bytes type prot opt tosa tosx source destination ports 0 0 acc udp 0xFF 0x00 0.0.0.0/0 224.0.0.0/4 * - * 0