Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 04:25:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jerry Blancher <flerll@kaschynna.com> To: "M. Monninger" <markem@primenet.com> Cc: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Invalid netmask? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405041447.22473A-100000@kaschynna.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980404121813.009ae350@pop.primenet.com>
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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, M. Monninger wrote: > At 10:52 AM 4/4/98 -0800, Dan Busarow wrote: > >On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, M. Monninger wrote: > >> Question: Is a netmask of 255.255.255.255 valid? > > > >Perfectly valid. > > > >Send the usual netstat -in and netstat -rn output with the > >255.255.255.255 netmask in place. > > > >Dan > With one provider that I go through, they told me to use netmask 255.255.254.0, the first time I tried to set up my server at this provider(version 2.2.5-RELEASE), we fought for a week trying to get the server to connect to the provider, untill I got upset at them telling me what I was suppose to use, and used 255.255.255.0 (which they claimed didn't even exist anymore) and I connected fine. Then set up second server on them (version 2.2.6-RELEASE) and remembered the netmask thing and had the os installed over the net, kernel re-built and rockin in under an hour. Then I tried setting up a server(version 2.2.6) at anouther provider and spent 3 day's listining to how the set-up should work, and basically knowing how FBSD's error messages corrispond to actual problems, I finally told them that they needed to give me the correct gateway number. They apperently was giving me the gateway number of a different set-up. Mind you, Window's NT and other OS's like Linux and stuff could use that gateway (and they showed me to prove it), but FBSD is REAL picky about the mubers that you give it. Particuarly I have found with the gateway's use the first 3 numbers they give you as a IP number and use 1 as the forth (ie. ?.?.?.1). Don't know if that is correct, but from all the set-up's I've seen, that seems to be a safe starting point, that and 255.255.255.0 is a safe starting point for netmask. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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