From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 8 02:17:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04010 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03807 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA00723; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:00:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:00:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807080200.UAA00723@obie.softweyr.com> Subject: Re: connecting NT and FBSD via tcp/ip over ethernet From: Wes Peters To: eivind@yes.no Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: <19980706151310.27504@follo.net> References: <19980706151310.27504@follo.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 1.6 (TrialWare) X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA03832 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My hidden microphone recorded Eivind Eklund (eivind@yes.no) saying: % 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). Nobody ever accused Microsloth of knowing what the **** they're doing. At least nobody with < .49999999 clue did. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message