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Pat Regan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Christoper Fowler wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Why would that have worked on one net but not another?
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If you didn't specify a netmask for that address the default would have
been 255.0.0.0. That means that any packets leaving the machine with a
65 in the first octet would be broadcast to the local subnet and not
routed through any gateways.
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And that makes perfect sense :)<br>
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