CIDR - networking

[Kihara Muriithi]

Hi,
 This is from fedora 4 /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file

# BrowseAddress: specifies a broadcast address to be used.  By
# default browsing information is not sent!
#
# Note: HP-UX does not properly handle broadcast unless you have a
# Class A, B, C, or D netmask (i.e. no CIDR support).
#
# Note: Using the "global" broadcast address (255.255.255.255) will
# activate a Linux demand-dial link with the default configuration.
# If you have a LAN as well as the dial-up link, use the LAN's
# broadcast address.
#

It looks like we still have systems that are not CIDR compliant after
all. Really surprising.

William
On 10/01/06, Nick Davey <ndavey3-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Older protocols that were classful, such as RIP v1 did not transmit
> the subnet mask with the IP address, however there were still subnet
> masks of 255.0.0.0, 255.255.0.0, etc.
>
> On 10-Jan-06, at 7:41 PM, James Knott wrote:
>
> > Joseph wrote:
> >> The class should never be determined by the mask but by the range
> >> in which
> >> the ip address falls.
> >
> > I thought that the old class addresses didn't have a sub net mask and
> > it's that SNM, the enables classless addresses.  That is, no mask,
> > no CIDR.
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