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Re: DHCP Broadcast address



On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:20:17PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> * nate <debian-user@aphroland.org> [2001.11.11 18:45:47-0800]:
> > hanasaki said:
> > > Should it be 192.168.1.0 or .255 and why?
> > 
> > 
> > depends on your subnet mask
> 
> .0 will never be a broadcast address, no matter what your subnet mask
> is...

... unless your network is using old-style (BSD 4.2, SunOS 4.x)
broadcast addresses.

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