I used the term "smack dab" as a figure of speech. I have tried
the format 1.2.3.4/27 but it failed. 255.255.255.224 is my mask,
I have tried 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.224 and the above with no sucess.
Am I missing something here?

Mike
mgcon@getnet.com
http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
Phoenix, AZ
USA

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 Eden.Li@asu.edu wrote:

> 
> I think you want to use CIDR..  I'm don't think you can get them right in the
> middle, but i think you can get 32 ips by using the subnet mask of:
> 
>   f    f      f    f      f    f      d    0
> 1111 1111   1111 1111   1111 1111   1100 0000
> 
> or 0xffffffd0 or 255.255.255.192 or (your ip)/26
> 
> unless I'm off by a bit then it's
> 
> 0xffffffe0 or 255.255.255.224 or (your ip)/27
> 
> HTH,
> Eden
> 
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Mike Starke wrote:
> > I have yet to figure out how to place an entry in a file
> > for tcprules that will handle a specific subnet.
> > I know you can put an entry like 1.2.3. and leave off
> > the last octet, but that opens the whole class c (as in the above
> > example) doesn't it? How about 32 ip's right smack dab in the
> > middle?
> 
> 
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