On 20 Jul 2006 16:15:36 -0700
ihatecrappymail@yahoo.com <ihatecrappymail@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Yes, I know that. Both the router and the computer trying to connect
| are on the same subnet (255.255.255.0). I left the router as a dhcp
| server and told it to use the ranges of 10.1.1.2-10.1.1.20.
Just "255.255.255.0" alone does not define a subnet. If the router is
on 10.1.1.1 then the computer connecting to it needs to be on one of
the IPs between 10.1.1.2 and 10.1.1.254 for them to find each other's
MAC address. The 255.255.255.0 is effectively just a statement of the
size of the subnet expressed in terms of the bit masked used to isolate
the network part of the whole address, converted to dotted decimal.
I do stuff like this in Linux by giving my ethernet interfaces many
different IP addresses so they can reach a variety of different subnet
numbers I play around with in many ranges.
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Re: Turn router into WAP 
Linear Mode
