Quote of the day

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

Actually, from a few weeks ago, but too good to NOT share.

This is paraphrased from what a co-worker of mine actually wrote in an e-mail to a customer asking for their public IP range. The moronic text is only slightly edited from the original (the glaring technical error is verbatim):

Thank you for contacting $COMPANY,

Your subnet is X.X.X.X/30.

This means your first usable IP is X.X.X.X

Your second usable IP is X.X.X.X

Your third usable IP is X.X.X.X

Blah blah blah,

Idiot

Comments

Let's see if I can remember my subnetting...

[jecook]

IIRC, a /30 only has 2 addys usable to begin with...

Re: Let's see if I can remember my subnetting...

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

:)

[jon787.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute... where does the 3rd IP come from?

[jon787.livejournal.com]

If this isn't a real subnet and is merely telling them what block of addresses they can use, it would be perfectly legitimate to have 3 IPs. The only thing is that they'd have a 4th then too.

[jecook]

Well, technically the third is "usable", but only as the broadcast. ::snicker::

[jon787.livejournal.com]

Same with the zeroth IP then too.

[usekh.livejournal.com]

*snickers*Whoops :)