> I am a little stupid when it comes to subnets
>
> my campus bought 2 class c's
>
> 209.114.138.X
> 209.114.139.X
>
> The ISP sheet says 255.255.254.0 for subnet mask
Hrm, well things have changed. It used to be that you could NOT use the
upper and lower addresses because they were ether the network subnet
address or the broadcast address. At my school, UH, we use old hardware
(DEC) that gives us problems when we do this.
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