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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pinging myself
Date: 14 Aug 1995 10:31:57 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Vlad D. Nebolsin <vega@glas.apc.org> wrote:
>> lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
>why 0xff000000 ? try 0xfffffff0 instead.
Why?
Actually, it doesn't really matter, you could even use 0xffffffff,
since there will probably never any other 127 address. But
officially, the network 127 is class A.
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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