On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:52:46AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > If you put a machine on that network as 192.168.1.200, and give it a > netmask of 255.255.255.0, it will respond to any packets destined to > 192.168.1.100 (obviously), but will also respond to packets destined to > the broadcast address (192.168.1.255).
Argh. The line: "... it will respond to any packets destined to 192.168.1.100 ..." Should have read: "... it will respond to any packets destined to 192.168.1.200 ..." -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"