I have a networking situation where some tools can or can't communicate between two devices on the same LAN but differing subnet masks (it's an error, will be corrected). The question is why do ...

I've got a DSL connection from southwestern bell. I checked the IP on my router, and see xxx.xxx.244.255. now, if I'm not mistaken, that should be the broadcast address...and my subnet mask is 255 ...

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