Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 15:08:22 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Phantom IP address" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970307150729.2758J-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <331F84EC.446B9B3D@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Jim Durham wrote: > I am the "caretaker" of a small ISP hub in a suburban telephone > company's > calling area, connected to the "downtown" hub by a 56K line. > > The IP address of the router are 206.210.70.1, the portmaster is > 206.210.70.2. My FreeBSD boxes are .4 and .5, the Dos/Windows box is .6 > . > > The netmask I was using was fffffff8 on this box (.5). > > I wanted to add my new laptop as .7 . I tried pinging .7 Try ifconfig ed0 and you'll see that .7 is your broadcast address for the ethernet. Danny
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