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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