IP Math anyone?

[Remco Gerlich]

Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> In article <slrn99mnvn.ia7.scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl>,
> scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl (Remco Gerlich) writes:
> 
> | .0.255 and .1.0 are not IP addresses you could give to a machine.
> | I've never seen existing code for this, seems to need some custom hacking.
> 
> | (I don't know if .255 and .0 are the only exceptions, probably not).
> 
> why do you think .0 or .255 are not usable addresses?

I was confused about netmasks. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

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Remco Gerlich