Setting netmask

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In trying to conect our Sun network to the outside world, we have run
into avery strange problem in trying to set the netmask.  Supposeddly
adding the netmask option to the ifconfig command in rc.boot will do
it.  In fact this works on the diskless clients (in fact one sees the
comforting message "Setting the netmask" during the boot process), but
it does not work on the file server, where the option seems to be ignored.
This leads to nasty consequenses for the clients, which can be corrected
by logging in as root (to the server of course) and typing the ifconfig
command with netmask option.  Something is clearly amiss, and we don't want
to have to type in this command after every boot.  What is the effective
way to set up the netmask.

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