On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:24:15PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: > The other NIC on each machine will be used to connect to a seperate switch > to LAN them together. (fxp1). I am still baffled by calculating subnets. > > My question is simple. What subnet and broadcast IP should I use when I set > the IP on each NIC to 192.168.0.1 , 2 , 3 ?
That's a matter of choice for a private network, but the 192.168.x.y address range is usually treated as /24 networks --- it is in what used to be the old C class part of the IP space before CIDR became de-rigeur. So: Network number: 192.168.0.0 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 or 0xffffff00 or /24 Broadcast: 192.168.0.255 Which gives you a total of 254 address from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.253 to use for your hosts. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message