Hello Recently I saw a unusual configured network interface. Here are the particulars: HOST IP 10.0.1.2 Netmask 255.255.255.0 Broadcast 10.255.255.255 I have previously seen the case where the broadcast was 10.0.1.255 for that given netmask. Is this an example of a misconfigured netmask? Why would an interface be defined this way. FWIW, the interface would not talk to other boxes on the network which were setup to use a broadcast of 10.0.1.255. JD - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html