From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 20:20:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lark.capnet.state.tx.us (lark.capnet.state.tx.us [204.65.39.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02F537B9B4 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:20:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us) Received: from localhost (bbradsby@localhost) by lark.capnet.state.tx.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3B3KMw02183; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:20:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:20:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan Bradsby To: Greg Lehey Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , kas@orient.net.ru, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netmasks (was: Trouble with Digital 21140A) In-Reply-To: <20000411101635.C26373@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There's nothing "wrong" with it. But Bryan appeared to suggest that > this non-standard netmask would solve the problems. Without knowing > something about the network, you can't decide that, and the default > value is more likely to be correct. Greg is entirely correct. When i tried to suggest using a netmask (as part of the problem solving) it came across differently than i intended, and could easily have led some users astray. > Greg thank you, -bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message