RE: *groan*

["Krpata, Tyler" <tkrpata () bjs com>]

Nor do they support octets in IPv4 addresses that are greater than 8
bits...

-----Original Message-----
From: Blue Boar [mailto:BlueBoar () thievco com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:35 PM
To: rMslade () shaw ca
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] *groan*

Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:
> OK, I'm thinking it's a subnet mask, and the significance of 255 is
easy to figure.  
> 240 and 252 less so, but at least they are within range.  But 257?

I have encountered many people who don't believe in non-contiguous 
subnet masks.  To be fair, a number of OSes don't support them anymore.

                                        BB
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