[mythtv-users] HDHomerun recordings cut short

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Tue Jan 18 19:08:07 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:12 PM, kanetse at gmail.com <kane.tse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Anthony Giggins
> <seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>>
>> Did you really need more then 255 IP's on your home network? :)
>>
>
> I can't remember all my network addressing rules, but I think that in IPv4
> are at least two reserved addresses (the .0 address and the broadcast
> address) in every subnet, that would be 253 addresses.  I'm sure someone
> here will chime in on the other ones I've missed.

You didn't miss any, but your math is off.  A byte has 256 possible
values, so there are 254 usable addresses with a 24-bit subnet mask.

Eric


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