[Gllug] Networks and Red Hat

Kieran Barry kieran at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sat Nov 17 22:10:40 UTC 2001


On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> On Saturday 17 November 2001 6:29 pm, you wrote:
> > > On , 16 Nov 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > > >I was under the impression that the standard for networking was as
> > > >follows:
> > > >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 :)
> 
Hmmm.  Let's see:

192.168.2.0
192.168.3.0
...
etc

10.0.0.0
10.0.1.0
...
etc
10.1.0.0
10.1.1.0
...
etc

And even stuff like
213.86,65.96
213.86,65,128
is valid with CIDR.

Next!

Kieran


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