Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 12:06:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: "M. Monninger" <markem@primenet.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Invalid netmask? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405112133.11444A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980404121813.009ae350@pop.primenet.com>
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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, M. Monninger wrote: > OK...the netstat output is attached. My understanding has always been that > the netmask defines the network portion of the address (the 1 bits) and the > the rest (the 0 bits) are the node addresses. How can you have any nodes > addresses if the entire address is the network address? > > Not flaming, just trying to understand. An all 1's netmask creates a single host route. And for a point-to-point connection that is normally what you want. A host route to the far end. Doesn't work with ethernet though :( Not sure how wide dhcp handles this, but with the ISC dhcp client you can specify over-riding values in the client configuration file. ie supersede subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; Wide probably has a similar option, if it doesn't give ISC a try. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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