From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 7 10:08:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02107 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 May 1997 10:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA02096 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 10:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA21310; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:56:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705071656.JAA21310@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Broken NetWare 3.12 TCP/IP support ? To: bazilio@economic.acnit.ac.ru (Vasily V. Grechishnikov) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:56:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" at May 7, 97 02:17:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The both netware interfaces .19 and .50 has identical netmasks: > 255.255.255.248 . This netmask will not work with the old NLM's. You should download the new NLM's (which I've just been made aware of (Thanks!) to let you use the netmasks you want. > > You don't give the 'names' of your wires, other than the top > > level one (named 193.233.113.0/255.255.255.0), so this is mostly > > speculation from my own experience using NetWare boxes as IP > > routers at Novell, Sandy. > LAN0 - 193.233.113.0/28 > LAN1 - 193.233.113.16/29 > LAN2 - 193.233.113.48/29 > LAN3 - 193.233.113.32/28 > LAN4 - 193.233.113.64/28 - cable is now disconnected because is broken. Splitting both 28 and 29 off the same wire is ...scary. Generally, you want subnetting to be uniform across any class C. Also, non-power-of-2 masking may be a problem for you in any case, even with the new NLM's. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.