Re: FW: Allowing user to connect to a database?

On 19/06/2003 14:04 Carlos Oliva wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> This worked very well. Perhaps, you can help me with another question:
> If I write an aaa bbb ccc of 200.200.200.0, do all clientes with IP
> addresses between 0.0.0.0 and 200.200.200.0 can connect?
>

No. The client ips would have to be in the range 200.200.200.1 to
200.200.200.254. The rules for sub-nets and sub-net masks can be a bit
confusing and I've yet to find a tutorial on-line which is easy to follow.
It might help you to think of 200.200.200.0 as 200.200.200.*.

HTH

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