[Gllug] Networks and Red Hat

[David Damerell]

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.'.

There are several conventions for where in the subnet the default
router is. First and last IP address are common enough, but Cambridge
uses what I gather was a convention in (bits of?) JANET which makes
the router in a /24 be .62, which takes some getting used to.

Since 'last' IP address is a current convention, I don't think it's
sensible to complain about Red Hat's installer.

[The broadcast address is effectively standard now. What's a
'broadcast source'? I would call the address with all host bits set to
zero the 'network number'.]

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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