On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > net broadcast hosts range mask* > 172.25.156.0 172.25.156.192 1-191 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 means 0-255, there is no netmask that'll match 0-191. > 172.25.156.193 172.25.156.223 194-222 255.255.255.192 This is correct. > 172.25.156.224 172.25.156.239 225-238 255.255.255.224 This is incorrect, mask 224 means 32 hosts ie 224-255. > 172.25.156.240 172.25.156.255 241-254 255.255.255.240 This is correct apart from it overlapping the before. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se - : 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