Wireless LAN doesn't do much of anything...

Roy Strachan wrote:[color=blue]
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:08:02 GMT, "John F. Morse"
> <xanadu.bbs@example.invalid> wrote:
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>> 255.255.255.0
>>
>> You want the netmask to force a match on the first three digits so it
>> matches your network and not somebody else's.
>>
>> You want the last digit to match any client on the network.
>>
>> 255 = 1111 1111 = everything must match.
>>
>> 0 = 0000 0000 = everything can fall through.
>>[/color]
>
> OK. That makes sense, Thanks.
>
> Roy Strachan - Registered Linux User 469226
>[/color]


Roy, here's a good reference. You might want to bookmark it for future use.

[url]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html[/url]


--
John

:
: Roy, here's a good reference. You might want to bookmark it for future
use.
:
: [url]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html[/url]
:

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_subnetting_reference[/url] :-D

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:25:51 GMT, "John F. Morse"
<xanadu.bbs@sample.invalid> wrote:
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>Roy Strachan wrote:[color=green]
>> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:08:02 GMT, "John F. Morse"
>> <xanadu.bbs@example.invalid> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> 255.255.255.0
>>>
>>> You want the netmask to force a match on the first three digits so it
>>> matches your network and not somebody else's.
>>>
>>> You want the last digit to match any client on the network.
>>>
>>> 255 = 1111 1111 = everything must match.
>>>
>>> 0 = 0000 0000 = everything can fall through.
>>>[/color]
>>
>> OK. That makes sense, Thanks.
>>
>> Roy Strachan - Registered Linux User 469226
>>[/color]
>
>
>Roy, here's a good reference. You might want to bookmark it for future use.
>
>[url]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html[/url][/color]

Done! I have gone through a couple of similar pages but at a quick
glance this looks more detailed. Thanks.

Roy Strachan - Registered Linux User 469226