[CentOS] IP range

Thu Aug 2 19:45:46 UTC 2012
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

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> Nope....
> 
> Work only .49 and .50
> 
> I bought 8 public IP-s ... so 8 IPs have to get work.
> In the hosting specification this IPs is usable with xxx.xxx.xxx.48-55 
> with subnet mask 255.255.255.255 with no gateway.
> 
> As I sad, works perfectly with this command (8 times, of course :) ):
> #ifconfig eth:(0 to 7) xxx.xxx.xxx.(48-55) netmask 255.255.255.255
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Levi
> 
It doesn't work that way... You may think you bought 8 ip's, but you can only
pass traffic on 6... That is how it works... You buy 16, and only 14 work. The
first and last address are as Johnny said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing