IP Address Question

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 11, 2008 9:42 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ethernet adapter in the desktop showed it was operating as
> 192.168.0.101 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 which I thought
> meant it would only accept packets addressed to 192.168.0.something
> and broadcast packets on that same net.  I had also believed that the
> 4 wired ports on the router were switched, not a hub.  Hence I was
> quite surprised that the firewall had seen and denied access to a
> request from the laptop 192.168.0.102 (UDP port 49xxx) to
> 239.255.255.250 port 3702.

That's the multicast address, right?  224.0.0.0/4 is the valid range, iirc...
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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