[oclug] destination host unreachable

[Chris Nolan]

Why would you go for the larger netmask?

It's a class-c range, so why use a class-b netmask?  Not many offices, let
alone a home lan would require that many hosts.

Chris Nolan

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Chris Nolan wrote:
> 
> > What are the IP's of the 2 boxes?  You have to have an IP 
> route between the
> > 2.  The easiest way to do this is set them to be on the 
> same subnet, e.g.
> > set one to 192.168.66.6 and the other 192.168.66.7.
> 
> And a netmask between 255.255.0.0 and 255.255.255.254
> (usually defaluts to 255.255.255.0 which is fine...but just 
> make sure!)
>