On Sunday, July 14, 2002 1:38 PM, NuTTeR 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.
Thanks for pointing this out Dennis however the IP Addressing scheme on my home ethernet was set in past years. The ethernet I am connected to actually has several networks (noahsark.net - 192.168.1.x, suseland.net - 192.168.3.x, wonderland.net - 192.168.4.x etc...) physically connected to it which were once individually isolated Class C networks, however we found we were sharing so many resources we simply now treat it as one big 192.168.x.x network, hence why we use a 255.255.0.0 netmask.
Ian.