----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Glover chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk
other ALUG members) any ideas?.. All help is welcome as I am a bit out of my depth myself!
No problem :-)
Networks can be bastards at times.
Chris
-- Chris
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.
P.S. ill be at the meeting later today will anyone have a copy of debian testing? if so could u bring it maybe :). I can also give lifts if you live in a small village my kinda way... Litcham and around that way :).
Dennis Dryden
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
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.
-
Chris Glover -
Ian Douglas -
NuTTeR -- Not Entered --