Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:46:11PM +0100, Andreas Haßfeld wrote:
> 
>>inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>
>>could it be that your netmask is borked? Shouldn't it be 0xffffff00 for
>>that broadcast address?
> 
> Why would that be wrong?  It's just a private /26 subnet.

It is wrong because the broadcast address, the netmask, and the IP 
address are related, and cannot be chosen randomly. In fact, given the 
IP address and the network mask, you can calculate the broadcast 
address, and with the above values, the broadcast address will *not* be 
192.168.1.255.
It should in fact be 192.168.1.63, so either the netmask should be 
changed, or the broadcast address should be changed. Pick one.

	Johnny