At 1:51 PM -0700 5/19/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>The default is you just have 1's in the space not in the netmask.  So for
>10.X.X.X, netmask 0xff000000, the broadcast address is 10.255.255.255.
>10.0.0.255 would be right with a netmask of 0xffffff00.

I have been doing some more reading and I believe I understand the netmask
part.
I even THOUGHT I understood broadcast address, but I now realize the
broadcast address was incorrect. Thanks for you comments.


>???? You should only use "default" to point to a router. You should NOT
>use it to point to one of your network addresses. A network address
>with a netmask will generate a route to everything on that net.

I agree that the routing is incorrect.  The part I don't understand is what
file needs to be modified to affect the change.  Suggestions???



>Since you've mentioned using this box as a gateway (which it should
>be able to do), you'll either need to get real IP addresses for
>everything (10.X.X.X won't do as the other folks can't talk to it),
>or run the firewall toolkit (a form of masquerading).

Do you have any additional information?  Your exsisting setup?



>If you use the real IP approach, make the default route on the other
>machines point to the modem'd computer, and then have the modem'd
>computer's default route point to the other end of the ppp or slip
>link. If you go the masquerading way, you don't need a default
>route as the only computers you can directly talk to are on your
>local net.

I am exploring both options, so any details would be appreciated...

Jesse

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