*BSD News Article 95960


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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP
Date: 22 May 1997 02:27:23 +0200
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In article <EAHuFC.xy@sphynx.fdn.fr> causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) writes:

> 
> Brian Somers (brian@shift.utell.net) wrote:
> > You should be using 192.168.0.0/16 - not 192.0.0.0/8 :)
>
> I thought 192.168.x.x was a class C network address, so the netmask
> should be 255.255.255.0, not 255.255.0.0.

It is 4 C-net's, if I remember correctly - 192.168.0/1/2/3.  In other
word, 22 bits of mask - 255.255.252.0

Eivind.