Re: plip with mulinux

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 10:08:57 CEST


On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 08:23:19PM +0200, Sven Conrad nicely wrote:
>
> Is this understandable? sorry I'am an Engineer and so no good
> in teaching.

You are clear as usual. Because you touched the "subnetworking" topic,
I submit you a question, coming from the IP-Subnetworking mini-Howto:
The author explain how to split in 4 part a single class C network
This is the text:

==========================================================================

 ______________________________________________________________________
  Network Broadcast Netmask Hosts
  192.168.1.0 192.168.1.63 255.255.255.192 62
  192.168.1.64 192.168.1.127 255.255.255.192 62
  182.168.1.128 192.168.1.255 255.255.255.126 124 (see note)
  ______________________________________________________________________

  Note: the reason the last network has only 124 usable network
  addresses (not 126 as would be expected from the network mask) is that
  it is really a 'super net' of two subnetworks. Hosts on the other two
  networks will interpret 192.168.1.192 as the network address of the
  'non-existent' subnetwork. Similarly, they will interpret
  192.168.1.191 as the broadcast address of the 'non-existent'
  subnetwork.
==========================================================================

But I can't absolutely understand why two subnets are joined in a single
network. Why .192 is a network address of the 'non-existent' subnetwork ?

Michele

-- 
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remember any. Would two negative ones do?       -- Woody Allen
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