From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 27 16:12:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA7737B405 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 16:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.119.162] helo=x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 15xccz-0006B4-00; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:12:33 -0400 Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9RNIQG47908; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:18:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:18:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: David Loszewski Cc: Subject: RE: subnetmask-need to add something In-Reply-To: <003c01c15f3c$44f35a00$3000b1d8@sickness> Message-ID: <20011027191705.Q47895-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, David Loszewski wrote: > For example in my rc.conf file my netmask is set to 255.255.0.0 but when > I do ifconfig it says that it's 192.168.0.255.255 Hi Dave, Are you sure you're not reading the broadcast address instead? The mask should be written in hex, so if your mask is 255.255.0.0 it'll look like 0xffff0000 Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message