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Old 30th March 2009
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
Given the subnet mask 255.255.255.0 specified, the following two addresses cannot be used for specific interfaces:
  • 192.168.255.0/24 -- subnet address
  • 192.168.255.255/24 -- subnet's broadcast address
Any other address between 192.168.255.1 -- 192.168.255.254 can be used for individual interfaces.
I guess this is one of the differences between that other O.S. and OpenBSD.
I could use x.x.x.255 (and I suspect x.x.x.0 also) for an adapter if I wanted to.
Can you tell me what the purpose of reserving the x.x.x.0 address is? Is it because it is effectively masked by the netmask?

Oh, and of course now I can ping.

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