Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 1999 19:05:22 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: howto disable auto route setup? |
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Hello,
> No. 255.255.254.0 is not legal for a Class C network (194.111.0) as a > subnet mask on an interface.
Network classes have been obsoleted by CIDR many years ago. A network is defined by a network prefix and prefix length.
On the other hand, there still exist devices/programs which don't undertand CIDR addressing properly. A typical example is Novell Netware 4.x :(
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Windows Error: 002 - No error yet ..."
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