From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Aug 12 10:29:53 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA04460 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:29:53 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA04449 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:29:48 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13824; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:29:10 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA09986 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:29:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA17901 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 18:52:58 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508121652.SAA17901@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 950726-SNAP lp0/nfs install bug ? To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 18:52:57 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508121416.QAA29321@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Aug 12, 95 04:16:49 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 584 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Murray wrote: > > > Jordan, when i think more about it, don't _calculate_ a default mask. > > Traditional class A and B networks are always subnetted. So perhaps > > 0xffffff00 would be the most practical default value. > > I would tend to agree that this is a _much_ better solution, but I would > document that the user should also find out what his netmask is when he > gets an IP address and use _that_ if supplied. Agreed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)