anyone knows about network

[Da Rock]

Excuse me, I got a bit distracted with feeding my baby girl.
The 255 is the broadcast address- this is address to send packets to in
order to reach every computer on the subnet (used by M$ networking for
netbios naming and elections).

Netmask will default to the same as the ip where this has not been set
yet.


On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 09:54 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> I'll answer at the top because I'm not sure you're familiar with lists
> (top posting is generally frowned upon, so usually look lower in the
> message).
> 
> This is just an unconnected network configuration. So no ip address is
> assigned yet, and it shows it as blank. The subnet mask is default too,
> because if you had a subnet mask like this your computer would only be
> able to talk to itself.
> 
> FYI: if you want some tuition on this stuff, I'd just read through the
> lists more. Try FreeBSD.org as they are usually more helpful to newbies-
> check out the questions list. Read through and ask some questions and
> you'll get the training you want.
> 
> Cheers and good luck. I'm on both these lists btw, so I'll keep an eye
> out.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 06:01 -0700, ann kok wrote:
> > Hi 
> > 
> > i want to subscribe about network mailing list
> > 
> > Do you know about it?
> > 
> > and do you know about this address meaning?
> > 
> > inet addr:0.0.0.6  Bcast:255.255.255.255
> > 
> > it is automatically assigned from the system?
> > 
> > Thank you
> > 
> > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> > 00:1B:21:07:A5:94  
> >           inet addr:0.0.0.6  Bcast:255.255.255.255 
> > Mask:0.0.0.0
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fe07:a594/64
> > Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
> > Metric:1
> >           RX packets:3944052 errors:0 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:4959117 errors:0 dropped:0
> > overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
> >           RX bytes:2610056956 (2.4 GiB)  TX
> > bytes:4864161519 (4.5 GiB)
> >           Base address:0xec00 Memory:fdc00000-fdc20000
> > 
> > 
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