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by lordnacho 3662 days ago
>>We'd spend maybe 4 hours trying to get all pcs "visible" to other pcs on the Windows network.

Me too! It was only when I did a CCNA that it occurred to me why you can't just give every machine an arbitrary IP like 1.2.3.4 and 5.6.7.8. And the mystery of what "Subnet Mask" meant caused a few facepalms as well.