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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 15:13:10 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: connecting NT and FBSD via tcp/ip over ethernet
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On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:20:28AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> And NT 4.0 nearly always gets the netmask WRONG in the control panel.
> If you enter a class C address, it chooses the class B netmask of
> 255.255.0.0.  Doh!

"But, that netmask worked during testing.  How can this be wrong?"
(Microslop has a class B, IIRC).

Eivind.

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