In article <20021025190953.393276cf.mazhar@nmt.edu> you wrote: >> 10.0.1.0/24. Hosts on 10.0.0.8/8 will not respond. > ^^It makes no sense what '10.0.0.8/8' means. it means the host with the ip 10.0.0.8 and the netmask 255.255.255.0 Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html