Bill Tangren writes: > Let's say I've been allocated 199.202.112.127/28 (these are made up addresses) > by my ISP, and I'm told to netmask as 255.255.255.0. Let's say I assign my > firewall the IP address of 199.202.112.130 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 as > required.> # ping 199.202.112.132 > Destination host unreachable > > but > > # ping -I eth1 199.202.112.132 > > works. Try using 255.255.255.240 as your netmask instead? Cheers, -Ted
