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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:09:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>
Cc:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: routed: possible netmask problem ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000714140842.86137C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007141128470.99794-100000@rapidnet.com>

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On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Nick Rogness wrote:

> > root@webfix:~>ifconfig fxp0
> > fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> >         inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.4
> 
> 	you have a /32 netmask on 1.4, change it to a /24 address
> 	(255.255.255.0) and see if that helps.

I don't have much experience with routed, but I can tell you that the /32
here is correct in my experience -- the two addresses are in the same /24
subnet.  Putting both in with a netmask of /24 will cause problems due to
muliple routing entries with the same prefix/netmask.

  Robert N M Watson 

robert@fledge.watson.org              http://www.watson.org/~robert/
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