[311] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
NetBSD install misset broadcast address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Sep 3 23:59:55 1995
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 23:59:24 -0400
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU, daveds@MIT.EDU, cyyang@MIT.EDU, davidz@MIT.EDU,
alian@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1001] in NetBSD-Development"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
It came to my attention that the MIT NetBSD install floppy was
incorrectly setting the broadcast (such that the first octet was zero)
if and only if you were on a subnet of net 18 that was NOT:
18.10, 18.139, 18.141, 18.143, 18.145, 18.146, 18.58, 18.62,
18.63, 18.70, 18.71, 18.72, 18.74, 18.75, 18.76, 18.77, 18.78,
18.80, 18.82, 18.83, 18.84, 18.85.6, 18.86, 18.87, 18.88,
or 18.92
Consequences of a mis-set broadcast address are not huge, but it (the
fouth field in /etc/hostname.???) should probably be fixed if you have
a chance. Just change the zero in the first octet of the ip address to
an 18. It'll take effect at reboot time.
I don't think it's worth sending mail to netbsd-announce about,
but I've updated the install floppies (now at version 1.8) fixing
this (a typo in dot.mitnetconf).
--jhawk
