<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">subnet 7.7.0.0/16 is equal to a range from 7.7.0.0 to 7.7.255.254<div><br></div><div>7.7.0.0 is the network address</div><div>7.7.255.255 is the broadcast address</div><div><br></div><div>you don't have to exclude all .0 and .255 because there will not be assigned<br><div><br></div><div>Banana</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Mukund Deshpande wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi All,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks for clarifying my doubt.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have one query here.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If my subnet is say <a href="http://7.7.0.0/16">7.7.0.0/16</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">and in range if i specify </div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">range 7.7.0.1 7.7.77.77;</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Then 7.7.1.0 , 7.7.2.0 , 7.7.3.0 7.7.77.0 or 7.7.5.255 are part of this range. Will have to explicitly exclude all the addresses from this range ? That would be so many addresses to exclude.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And if we were to exclude the .0 's and .255's it would be many ranges we would end up specifying.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Please correct me if I am wrong.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Mukund</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Flex Banana <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:flex.banana@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">flex.banana@bluewin.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I think you can not use .0 as host address.<div><br></div><div>We have a lot of /23 subnet and never a .0 will be assigned.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Banana</div></font></span><div class="im"><div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 24, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Peter Rathlev wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium">If you want to use 7.7.7.0 as a host address (on ethernet) you need to<br>
use <a href="http://7.7.6.0/23" target="_blank">7.7.6.0/23</a> or larger where it would be valid.</span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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