From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 12:06:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26593 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 12:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26519 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 12:06:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA11653; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 12:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 12:06:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "M. Monninger" cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Invalid netmask? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980404121813.009ae350@pop.primenet.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 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