Excuse me, I got a bit distracted with feeding my baby girl. The 255 is the broadcast address- this is address to send packets to in order to reach every computer on the subnet (used by M$ networking for netbios naming and elections).
Netmask will default to the same as the ip where this has not been set yet.
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 09:54 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
I'll answer at the top because I'm not sure you're familiar with lists (top posting is generally frowned upon, so usually look lower in the message).
This is just an unconnected network configuration. So no ip address is assigned yet, and it shows it as blank. The subnet mask is default too, because if you had a subnet mask like this your computer would only be able to talk to itself.
FYI: if you want some tuition on this stuff, I'd just read through the lists more. Try FreeBSD.org as they are usually more helpful to newbies- check out the questions list. Read through and ask some questions and you'll get the training you want.
Cheers and good luck. I'm on both these lists btw, so I'll keep an eye out.
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 06:01 -0700, ann kok wrote:
Hi
i want to subscribe about network mailing list
Do you know about it?
and do you know about this address meaning?
inet addr:0.0.0.6 Bcast:255.255.255.255
it is automatically assigned from the system?
Thank you
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:21:07:A5:94 inet addr:0.0.0.6 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:0.0.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fe07:a594/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3944052 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4959117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2610056956 (2.4 GiB) TX bytes:4864161519 (4.5 GiB) Base address:0xec00 Memory:fdc00000-fdc20000
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