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Re: Strange entry in my routing table.



On Wednesday 04 March 2015 21:39:16 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Gene Heskett (gheskett@wdtv.com):
> > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 18:34:17 Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > > > That looks 10% legit to me.
> > >
> > > 10% ? Is it a typo or a joke? :-)
> >
> > Thats a genuine typu, s/b 100%. 80yo fingers don't always type what
> > my brain tells them... :(
>
> However, your response was not particularly helpful because in your
> case the numbers you substituted with xx are the same.
>
> I know I had to look carefully to see where the OP's confusion lay.
> Like most people with a home router, I don't often see a netmask that
> isn't 255.255.255.0.
>
> Thanks to Bob for a very clear exposition.

Yes David.  When I get this install tuned up a bit better, I should troll 
thru the kernel's networking and see if I could borrow some of that math 
for netmask and such.

Bob is likely 100% correct, but I'd like to learn how its done.

> Cheers,
> David.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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