From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:50:16 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Re: Not understanding network setup!! Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Eliot, Wireless and Server Administrator, Great Lakes Internet wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: lartc-bounces@mailman.ds9a.nl > [mailto:lartc-bounces@mailman.ds9a.nl] On Behalf Of > ramsurrunv@mx.uom.ac.mu > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 2:58 PM > To: lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl > Subject: [LARTC] Not understanding network setup!! > >> Hi to all, ... > First, 10.0.0.0/31 would be a network address. Second, a 31 bit subnet > is meaningless. It only offers two addresses, the network address at > 10.0.0.0 and the broadcast address at 10.0.0.1. That leaves no available > addresses for host addresses. You probably mean /30 instead of /31. If > you were using a /30, then you would run: > > ip addr add 10.0.0.1/30 dev eth1 > ip addr add 10.0.0.5/30 dev eth2 > ip addr add 10.0.0.9/30 dev teql0 > > The .1, .5, and .9 would be the first available addresses in their > respective subnets. You probably mean /28 instead of /30: ip addr add 10.0.0.9/28 dev teql0 Jarek P. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc