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 > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > >
