Hi! As I am configoring a rather unusual network setup, I must know the exact meaning of the NETMASK (and BROADCAST) paramaters of the ifconfig command. Currently I use : ifconfig eth0 122.122.122.122 netmask 255.255.255.255 (IP not real ) "ifconfig eth0" then prints, that eth0 has a broadcast address of 122.255.255.255, which does not look right. Later I set this routing : route add 10.49.1.1 dev eth0 route add default gw 10.49.1.1 Will this work ? I am currently testing under knoppix 3.7 on a single PC, not in the real target network. Background or "Why am I doing this" ? A PC will be conncted to an ADSL modem. It will have a PPPoE session to the ISP. Two other PCs will be connected to the first PC. The ISP assigned two static IP adresses, that I want to set for the two PCs ( not the "router" PC ). Regards, David Bala.ic - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
