[Gllug] Networks and Red Hat

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun Nov 18 12:48:13 UTC 2001


On Saturday, 17 Nov 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:
>On Saturday 17 November 2001 6:29 pm, you wrote:
>>>On , 16 Nov 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:
>>>>first IP in range is broadcast source (i.e. 192.168.1.0), second IP is
>>>>router (192.168.1.1), last IP is Broadcast (192.168.1.255).
>>>You mean 'e.g.', not 'i.e.'.
>>I'm not convinced.
>I would say 'e.g.' is in fact wrong, also, because 'e.g. 192.168.1.0' implies 
>there being more than one correct answer :)

You've made the same mistake as the other guy. There is more than one
correct answer; there's one for every network that might be in
use. The mention of 192.168.1.0 is the first indication we have of
which network is in use - i.e., which network the example relates to -
and so 'e.g.' is correct.

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