Re: [CentOS] Security help desperately needed - more info

Milton Calnek wrote:

Michael Simpson wrote:

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Hi there,

Should the IP address supplied be the actual address for eth0 rather than the network address?

ie 192.168.0.1/24 rather than 192.168.0.0/24

I dunno... what does 192.168.0.1/24 mean?

this one is not always accepted.

what does 192.168.0.0/24 mean?

this is the correct one.

The way I see it, they both mean 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.0.255.

yes, but the first version is not accepted by all software. because no IP will satisfy bin(ip) & 0xffffff00 = bin(192.168.0.1)

anyway, I have a samba setup with interfaces = 192.168.10.0/24 and it works. so this is not the source of the problem.