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Re: Configuring my net.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Howell)
Tue Apr 9 01:48:52 1996
From: andrew@toaster.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)
To: dledford@dialnet.net (Doug Ledford)
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:41:27 +0800 (WST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux Net)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960409002405.11948A-100000@news.dialnet.net> from "Doug Ledford" at Apr 9, 96 00:24:49 am
Doug Ledford writes:
>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Andrew Howell wrote:
> > > Can anyone explaing to me how I should come up with the netmasks? The
> > > machine on the localnet don't seem to be able to see each other.....
> >
> > Your network address is 206.196.114.16
> > Your broadcast address is 206.196.114.23
> > Your netmask is 255.255.255.248
> >
> > So to setup your machines do the following
> >
> > /sbin/ifconfig eth0 YOUR-IPADDR netmask 255.255.255.248 broadcast 206.196.114.16
> > /sbin/route add -net 206.196.114.23
> ^^
> Typo :) I think you meant to put the network address there, which is 16 :)
Oops :) yep your right.
Andrew
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Andrew Howell howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au
Perth, Western Australia andrew@it.com.au andrew@debian.org
