On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, NuTTeR -- Not Entered -- wrote:
This may sound realy dumb and not be correct at all but isnt 192.somthing.somthing.somthing a class C IP adress... and that should have a broadcast address of 192.somthing.somthing.255 not 192.something.255.255. just a thought. The first 3 parts of the ip addresses on that network should be the same for all the hosts(nodes/computers/...). Or is it a subnet thing? if not your subnetmask should be 255.255.255.0.
The range is 192.168.X.X which can either be a class B or class C address.
At home I have mine configured as a class C, so 192.168.0.x is my network, 255.255.255.0 is my subnet mask, and 192.168.0.255 is the broadcast.
In Ian's case, the network is 192.168.x.x, hence subnet mask 255.255.0.0 and broadcast 192.168.255.255
Chris