On Du, 05 ian 14, 23:47:32, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > 3. it's safe to get rid of 'network' and 'broadcast', they are > > calculated from address and netmask ;) > > Actually not. Some home adsl modems and routers these days default to > 172.XX.. and 10. subnets, and Debian (Linux kernel?) chooses networks > such as 255.255.0.0 and 255.0.0.0 and correspondingly for broadcasts. I admit my knowledge is quite sketchy in this area, but this just doesn't make sense to me. Could you provide a more concrete example of address/netmask and resulting network/broadcast?
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