IP routing subnet mask bug?

Robin Cutshaw robin at itcatl.UUCP
Wed Oct 25 11:24:30 AEST 1989


In article <468 at janus.UUCP>, todd at janus.UUCP (Todd Booth) writes:
> How did you set up AIX to perform the subnet mask server function?
> 
> > This causes at least one of our systems to
> > take itself off the net (for all intents and purposes).
> 
> Assuming your system isn't diskless, just give the mask at ifconfig time.
> ifconfig net0 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 

Guess I should have included more detail.  I am using ifconfig with
netmask 255.0.0.0 and broadcast MYNET.255.255.255.  ifconfig shows
the netmask to be ff000000 but it actually arp's 000000ff...

robin

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