[ale] Local IP Non-Pingable on LAN from different Class C

Christopher R. Curzio ale at accipiter.org
Sun Jul 21 13:34:54 EDT 2002


No, that's not a typo. Obviously, I need 255.255.252.0 so machines on
192.168.0.0/24 can communicate with machines on 192.168.1.0/24.

And yes, 192.168.0.255 IS the correct broadcast for 192.168.0/24, but
you're forgetting that I have the second class C.

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Thus Spake Kevin Krumwiede <krum at smyrnacable.net>:
21 Jul 2002 13:28:43 -0400


> On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 13:13, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> 
> > One curious thing I noted, is that I saw the broadcast address is
> > wrong on this machine: (from ifconfig)
> > 
> > inet addr:192.168.0.4  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
> > 
> > All other machines report Bcast as 192.168.3.255. Anyone have any
> > ideas?s
> 
> Looks like the mask is wrong, is that a typo?
> 
> Anyway, it looks like the other machines are the ones with the wrong
> bcast address.  Bcast address for a LAN is the network number followed
> by all host bits set to 1.  So 192.168.0.255 is the correct bcast
> address for 192.168.0/24.
> 
> Krum
> 

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