IP Math anyone?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:08:09AM +0000, Remco Gerlich wrote:
>He doesn't; .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.

It all depends on your netmask:

	10.0.0.254/24 + 1 = 10.0.1.1/24
	10.0.0.254/23 + 1 = 10.0.0.255/23
	10.0.0.2/30 + 1 = 10.0.0.5/30

Sean
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