[CentOS] IP range

Fri Aug 3 14:22:52 UTC 2012
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 08/03/2012 08:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> [For the archives, since I think Johnny just hit the wrong number key.....]
>
> On Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:24:27 AM Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> If you want 8 usable addresses (including the Network number, a gateway
>> address, and a Broadcast address), that would mean you need at least 11
>> IPs in that subnet ... the closest fit would be a 255.255.255.240 subnet
>> (which has 16 addresses).  If you were to want to use th 255.255.255.240
>> subnet, then 192.168.1.48 would not be available as it would the the
>> Network number for that subnet ... the usable addresses would be
>> 192.168.1.49-63 that case and the Broadcast Address would be 192.168.1.64
> 192.168.1.63 would be the correct broadcast address; .64 would be the network address of the next subnet.

Indeed ... Thanks Lamar :-)

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