On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:29:11AM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 20:10, Karl Bongers wrote: > > > > Anyone know why the first(x.x.x.0) IP address is reserved? > > What is it used for? > > Seems like a waste of a perfectly good address to me. > I found a good explanation of subnets as > http://www.ezine.com/EZInternet.SubNet.html > > This shuld answer your questions. Thanks Jon, it was a good read, didn't know about the CIDR versus Classic thing. But, it still leaves it unaswered: quote: The address with a host portion that is all zeroes is the same as the network address and cannot be used as an actual host address because this causes confusion with certain network commands and messages. Oh, confusion, thats it :) With "certain" network commands. What network commands exactly? My guess is that it is a convenience×Øused when implementing routing tables/software. Unless it is used "on the wire" for something useful, I still feel it is a waste of an address. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list