[OLUG] failures

[Drazak]

255.255.255.255 or /32 (all 32 bits as a "1") means that the mask is JUST
for that particular IP address.  You see this notation in firewalls and
routing tables when you want to set a rule or a route for just that
particular IP address, and not a range of IP addresses.

_Drew

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> 
> Hello
> 
> > correct me if I'm wrong, but 255.255.255.255 is NOT a vaild net mask.  
> > An invalid netmask can cause lots-o-problems.
> 
> Ordinarily I would agree with you, but this is what ifconfig says on my
> current PPP session:
> 
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>           inet addr:216.161.77.110  P-t-P:209.180.96.51  Mask:255.255.255.255
>           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
> 
> and I have none of the problems this poor fellow is having with Radiks.
> 
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu
> 
> "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
> universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
> 
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