On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:19:46AM -0400, John F Davis wrote: > Ok. This doesn't seem to correspond with your earlier email. in that case i have missread your mail. > >From ifconfig output: > Net mask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 10.255.255.255 is wrong wrong > Netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 10.0.1.255 is right The reason for the wrong netmask is most likely that the kernel is asuming a wrong default for the broadcast. the reason is because if config uses different ioctls to set the address netmask and broadcast address, therefore it is kind of not supported to let it guess the right thing :) I might change that in the future in net-tools. Greetings Bernd - : 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
