[oclug] help with rogers!

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:51:05PM -0500, Ross Jordan wrote:

> The 24.x.y.z is a class A network, with 8bit netid.
> A nm of 255.255.255.192 gives 6 bits for the hostid, 
> and 32-8-6=18 bits for the subnet id.
> 
> ip               netid    subnetid           hostid
> 24.114.127.148 = 00011000 011100100111111110 010100
> 24.114.127.129 = 00011000 011100100111111110 000001
> 
> Well this means the hostname and gateway are on the
> same subnet (and network), and the gateway looks like 
> it might be correct (often gateways are the .1 entry 
> of their subnet).
> 
> You've probably entered a value incorrectly
> somewhere. Double check your settings.

    No, I just forgot to reconfigure my firewall with the new IP address, so
of course it was doing its job and blocking traffic. ;-)

    Thanks,

    Mike

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