On 24-Aug-08, at 12:57 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
For Class C address space c1.c2.c3.0 and c1.c2.c3.255 are reserved
for
the network number and broadcast number respectively. They are not
supposed to be used as host ip numbers.
Classes are passe. Gone forever from the face of Internet.
Today it is CIDR.
You could have an IP 192.168.0.1 but not an IP that ends in .0 like
192.168.1.0 since both 192.168.1.255 and 192.168.1.0 are used for
broadcast.