[lug] local network

[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:21:57AM -0600, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, David wrote:
> 
> > Currently I am using 123.456.666.1 and 2; ping gives me "unknown host"  
> > with each number on each machine.
> 
> Is this a valid IP address?  I didn't think that you could have numbers
> greater that 254.  

Definitely not! The ping program will try to interpret '123.456.666.1' as 
a hostname but this will very likely fail (not a valid hostname either).
The valid range of the numbers is 0-255 (8-bit numbers). These days the
highest address (255 = all bits on) is usually used as the broadcast address
of a net, so in the common class c network 255 on the last quad is not
a good idea. 

  Ralf

> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
> 
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