-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, March 10 2002 12:46 pm, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Ryan wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Netmasks are not for sepcifing ip ranges, they're for specifing network > > size. > > > > You'll should specify this as 7 255.255.0.0 netmasks. > > The idea that netmasks must break on octet boundaries is ancient history. > See Section 5 of RFC1338 at, for example, http://RFC.net/rfc1338.html.
I know that..... > > A netmask should always be x number of one bits, followed by all zeros, > > hence the /x shorthand. > > > > as an example, 255.255.255.16 would not be a valid netmask, but > > 255.255.255.192 would. > > The "validity" of the netmask depends on convention, but it is true that > it is highly unlikely to be useful to create discontiguous netmasks. > > [...] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech - -- No Microsoft products were used in any way for the creation of this message. PGP Public key at http://mother.com/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc It is also on the servers: Key ID 0x72177BC7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8i+SMEd9E83IXe8cRArGiAJ0QNU++BcPJWSgR6SdzzyZZ116PQgCff2JN QbDLmfUAvqV8pMHZG1s0JdM= =7X0P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
