broadcast adress assignement in GUI

[Gaël Varoquaux]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:42:24AM -0800, Vram wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 11:11 +0100, Gaël Varoquaux wrote:
> >     Hi,

> > 	sorry if this isn't the right place to discuss this, but I think
> > my issue is related to the gnome-system-tools package which refers to
> > this mailing list.

> >     My remark is the following : consider a network with the following
> > settings in the "Network settings" GUI :

> >     address 10.10.156.13
> >     netmask 255.255.0.0
> >     gateway 10.10.156.1



> For my $$..  

> You are using a class A address space with a class  B mask /16

> Therefore  you network number is 

> 10.10.0.0

> Your broadcast is 

> 10.10.255.255

    Sorry, I am not sure I understand this. But indeed my broadcast
should be 10.10.255.255 . I am just not sure the GUI sets it up properly
(this needs to be checked, but unless I am wrong it should be changed).

	Regards.

        Gaël