On Nov 2, 14:40, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> --- Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 2, 16:30, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> > > What does 'broadcast' do (other than the obvious)?
> >
> > It's just a way of explicitly stating what the broadcast address for
that
> > interface is. In every legitimate case I can think of, it should be
> > redundant if you provide the netmask (or the netmask is redundant if
you
> > give the broadcast address).
>
> I think it's useful when you have an ancient network where the broadcast
> address uses 0-bits, rather than 1-bits - i.e., ip 192.168.1.1 with a
> netmask of 192.168.1.0 and a broadcast address of 192.168.1.0 *not*
> 192.168.1.255. It's archaic, but allowed.
So it is -- I forgot about that! The rest of what I wrote may well be
drivel :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Fri Nov 02 2001 - 17:12:34 GMT