Ralink wireless interface

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> On 12/07/2009 04:51 PM, James W. Bennett wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to use my Ralink 2561 chip set on Fedora 12. I have tried
>> using dhcp and the address I get is 10.43.42.0 which is good address
>
> No it's not...it's a network address (e.g. broadcast), not a host
> address.

Actually that's not entirely true in 10.x.y.x a .0 address is a
perfectly valid IP address depending on the netmask. If it was a /24
netmask it would be invalid but it would be a network address, not a
braodcast address. The broadcast address for /24 is .255 , which is is
also a valid IP address if the netmask is less than 24.

Peter