Flushing the IP routing table

[Neil Cherry]

Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> On 1/12/06, Neil Cherry <ncherry at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>>> On 1/12/06, John Austin <ja at jaa.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> Odd looking netmask !!!! on first entry
>>>> Should it be 255.255.255.0 ?
>>> 255.255.252.0 is a sub-netting mask.
>> In the old days that would be a supernet because the 192.168.x.x
>> is a class C (255.255.255.0). But that no longer holds true (and
>> for the life of me I can't remember the dang name, something like
>> classless). Today that would signify that the network 192.168.0.0
>> covers the IP addresses 192.168.0.0 through 192.168.3.255. It is
>> a little odd if this is a home network.
>>
> 
> Classess Interdomain Routing:  CIDR

Cider! That's it! Thanks. Really I know what I'm talking about. :-)

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