On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:52:46AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > If you then put another box on the network as 192.168.1.7, and give it a > netmask of 255.255.255.128 (/25), it should not be able to see > 192.168.1.200. Broadcast packets from 192.168.1.7 would be going to > 192.168.1.128 (its "view" of the network would be 192.168.1.0 to > 192.168.1.128).
And this is also wrong (off-by-one on the broadcast address). It should have read: > If you then put another box on the network as 192.168.1.7, and give it a > netmask of 255.255.255.128 (/25), it should not be able to see > 192.168.1.200. Broadcast packets from 192.168.1.7 would be going to > 192.168.1.127 (its "view" of the network would be 192.168.1.0 to > 192.168.1.127). This is what I get for handling two MPLS network outages at the same time while trying to write this mail. -- | 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]"
