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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 1996 15:20:34 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        nickliu@netcom.com (Nick Liu)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, nickliu@netcom.com
Subject:   Re: UTP to UTP Networking'
Message-ID:  <199608272020.PAA13113@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9608271248.A4766-0100000@netcom15> from "Nick Liu" at Aug 27, 96 12:27:14 pm

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In a previous message, Nick Liu said:
> 
> 
> 
> I bought the crossover RJ45 cables and I have two PCs with FreeBSD 2.1.5.  I 
> want to set up one NIC to use: 192.168.253.9 and the other 192.168.253.10.  
> Here's what I plan to do:
> 
> On Machine A. (192.168.253.1)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ifconfig ed0 192.168.253.9 broadcast 192.168.253.10 netmask 0xff000000
> route add 192.168.253.10 192.168.253.9
> 
> On Machine B. (192.168.253.5)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ifconfig ed0 192.168.253.10 broadcast 192.168.253.9 netmask 0xff000000
> route add 192.168.253.9 192.168.253.10

Your netmasks don't match your broadcast, and your broadcast should
actually go to a subnet not a node.
I'd do something like

ifconfig ed0 192.168.253.x broadcast 192.168.253.11 netmask 0xfffffffc

Broadcast will be automatically set via the netmask.

Paul.



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