Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:27:30 -0400 From: "Bezerker" <bezerker@bezerker.org> To: "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: subnetmask-need to add something Message-ID: <005701c15f3f$cfaaa510$0101a8c0@bezerker> References: <003d01c15f3d$e9c1a3b0$3000b1d8@sickness>
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Your looking for the netmask which is the subnetmask. its displayed in hex right after netmask ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:20 PM Subject: RE: subnetmask-need to add something > 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 > <snip> > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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