[PLUG] (no subject)

Charlie Schluting charlie at schluting.com
Thu Aug 4 16:59:45 UTC 2005


On 8/4/2005 9:54 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 
> The size of a network is pretty arbitrary. It needn't be X.Y.Z.0-255. 
> Using netmasking it can range from the entire IPv4 address space (mask 
> 0.0.0.0) all the way down to a single host (mask 255.255.255.255).

No.. if the netmask is 0.0.0.0 your OS will try to ARP for *everything* and 
if proxy-arp isn't enabled on the router you're using, you won't get to 
anything that isn't in the local subnet, because the entire Internet won't 
hear your ARPs.

-Charlie



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