On Tuesday 25 November 2003 13:02, John R. Shannon wrote:
> > The problem is I can't ping macppc anymore. Should the netmask of macppc
> > be equal to the netmask of i386 network card that access the local
> > network?
>
> yes.
>
> The netmask determines the broadcast address. Broadcasting is used in the
> arp protocol to map IP addresses to ethernet addresses.

It fails with 255.255.255.249 netmask, but it works when I change it to 
255.0.0.0. I don't know why.

Thank you.