From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 27 16:20:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA77537B401 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 16:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sickness (test4.peter.Metro2000.NET [216.177.0.48]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f9RNLYx09124 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:21:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "David Loszewski" To: Subject: RE: subnetmask-need to add something Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:20:04 -0400 Message-ID: <003d01c15f3d$e9c1a3b0$3000b1d8@sickness> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20011027191705.Q47895-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Yea, I am reading the broadcast, lol, subnet then, I think that's what I'm looking for, am I right? Dave -----Original Message----- From: Dru [mailto:genisis@istar.ca] Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:18 PM To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: subnetmask-need to add something 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