SUMMARY: Sol 2.1 ifconfig trouble

From: G.ROBERTSON@aberdeen.ac.uk
Date: Tue Apr 27 1993 - 18:23:55 CDT


Wow! Lots of replies all saying the same thing - and it worked!

Thanks everyone.

My question was....

I'm having problems getting Sol2.1 to set my subnet mask properly. I've got
/etc/netmasks set to

hsru# cat /etc/netmasks
#
139.133.216.0 255.255.255.0
139.133.223.0 255.255.255.0

etc
etc.....

And the universal cry was... RUBBISH! Your /etc/netmasks should (very probably)
be

139.133.0.0 255.255.255.0

Which is the spell needed to declare that the Class B network 139.133 is to
be subnetted, with 8 bits for the subnet field, and 8 for the host field.

Thanks to....
grs@claircom.com (Gregg Siegfried)
ogpaik@caltech.edu (Oon-Gil Paik)
Scott Erickson <erickson@binky.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>
Reed_Haslam@Novell.COM
Randy Diffenderfer <rdiffe01@cad.gmeds.com>
canuck@masc38.rice.edu
Mr T Crummey (DIJ) <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
trinkle@edu.purdue.cs (Daniel Trinkle)
kevin%kalli%ups@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Kevin Sheehan)
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
Torsten Metzner <tom@uni-paderborn.de>
davidl@Newbridge.COM
Piete.Brooks@uk.ac.cam.cl
plord@pioneer.uspto.gov
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