Setting netmask
    Matt Crawford 
    matt at oddjob.uchicago.edu
       
    Sat Nov 26 08:38:33 AEST 1988
    
    
  
> In trying to conect our Sun network to the outside world, ...
> What is the effective way to set up the netmask?
What works here is, let the address be set in rc.boot with the standard
	/etc/ifconfig ie0 $hostname -trailers up
and put a line in rc.local to set the naetmask (and possibly the
broadcast address):
	/etc/ifconfig ie0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 128.135.0.0
				Matt
    
    
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