Re: Proper Broadcast Address ?

[Emmanuel Seyman <seyman acticiel com>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:42:16AM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> 
> Setup a couple of DSLs on Linux using a subnet mask of 255.255.255.224
> and I am concerned about the "broadcast" address. This is the only value
> that the technician did not supply.

Here's how I do it.
The first IP address of your network is reserved (it's the network address).
The last IP address is also reserved (it's the boardcast address).
Everything between these is yours to use.

Your subnet mast is 255.255.255.224 .
In binary, this translates to : 11111111 11111111 11111111 11100000

This means that you have a range of 32 IP addresses, the last one 
of which is the boardcast address.

HTH.

Emmanuel