Am I supposed to assign the broadcast IP somewhere?

Posted by pvieira on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by pvieira
Published on 2011-06-29T21:55:17Z Indexed on 2011/06/30 0:23 UTC
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This is a very basic question from a newbie point of view.

I have a dedicated server at Hetzner running Windows 2008 R2.

I bought a subnet of IP addresses to use in this server. They provided me a given range of IPs, incluind one Ip labeled as "Broadcast".

I know how to assign those IPs to the NIC, but should I do something with the Broacast IP, like configure it somewhere on Windows? Or can I just ignore it and I'll be fine?

This IP range will be used to host SSL sites.

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