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Quoting Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro>:

> more /etc/rc.conf | grep ifconfig
This returns nothing
 
> I presume you made a typo when entering the netmask, 
I made no typos - the results were cut and pasted from my ssh session.
 
> the broadcast address is pretty strange too
If you mean the 209.237.255.52, that's the IP address of the virtual server I'm
leasing.

Cheers
Graeme