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Re: Ethernet is not started at boot



On Wednesday 07 February 2018 07:09:59 Michael Stone wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 10:02:18AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> >However, the lead to the problem, that I need more then 256 IP
> > addresses and since I do not want to install my own  Linux  router 
> > behind  my  3G Gateway only to have 512 IP adresses or more, I
> > decided to increaase the network with 255.255.127.0. and if the IP
> > is e.g. 192.168.4.12, then the IP range become automatically
> > 192.168.4.0-192.168.5.255.
>
> As someone already pointed out, this is a bogus netmask. I recommend
>
> sipcalc as a handy tool for figuring out network information:
> > sipcalc 192.168.4.0/23
>
> -[ipv4 : 192.168.4.0/23] - 0
>
> [CIDR]
> Host address		- 192.168.4.0
> Host address (decimal)	- 3232236544
> Host address (hex)	- C0A80400
> Network address		- 192.168.4.0
> Network mask		- 255.255.254.0
> Network mask (bits)	- 23
> Network mask (hex)	- FFFFFE00
> Broadcast address	- 192.168.5.255
> Cisco wildcard		- 0.0.1.255
> Addresses in network	- 512
> Network range		- 192.168.4.0 - 192.168.5.255
> Usable range		- 192.168.4.1 - 192.168.5.254
>
> > sipcalc -4 "192.168.4.0 255.255.127.0"
>
> -[ipv4 : 192.168.4.0 255.255.127.0] - 0
>
> -[ERR : Invalid netmask]
>
> > sipcalc -4 "192.168.4.0 255.255.128.0"
>
> -[ipv4 : 192.168.4.0 255.255.128.0] - 0
>
> [CIDR]
> Host address		- 192.168.4.0
> Host address (decimal)	- 3232236544
> Host address (hex)	- C0A80400
> Network address		- 192.168.0.0
> Network mask		- 255.255.128.0
> Network mask (bits)	- 17
> Network mask (hex)	- FFFF8000
> Broadcast address	- 192.168.127.255
> Cisco wildcard		- 0.0.127.255
> Addresses in network	- 32768
> Network range		- 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.127.255
> Usable range		- 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.127.254

Finally, some sanity in this thread, thank you Michael.

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