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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>
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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