Re: *groan*

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Who said it was an octet?

                                        BB

Krpata, Tyler wrote:
> 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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