On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:51:38PM -0500, David Phillips wrote: > > That's incorrect. You can't use the first and last IP addresses in a > subnet. In the case of a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, that would be 0 and > 255. 0 is the subnet ID and 255 is broadcast. One IP address must be used > for the gateway, and generally it is the first address (but doesn't have to > be) after the subnet ID, so 1 would be the gateway. Anyone know why the first(x.x.x.0) IP address is reserved? What is it used for? Seems like a waste of a perfectly good address to me. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list