[PLUG] novice troubles with nic

Will Andrews Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:09:03 -0500


On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:22:07PM -0500, Robert Woods (woodsrw@purdue.edu) wrote:
>     Bcast       128.211.209.255   (that bothered me-- why 255-- shouldn't 
> it be to 1?)

No.  Broadcast is the last bit of the host address, which is
always 255.

> dns really can't be the problem considering i can't ping IP addresses.  so 
> i will skip that right now.

Considering that everything else seems to be setup OK, I suspect
you have a firewall setup somehow.

-- 
wca