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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:05:26 +0200
From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, net-tools@lina.inka.de, philb@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ifconfig and SIOCSIFADDR
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In-Reply-To: <200107241447.OAA07015@vlet.cwi.nl>; from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:47:56PM +0000
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Hi Andries,

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:47:56PM +0000, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> I just noticed that the command
> 
> 	ifconfig eth1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 10.0.0.150
> 
> (with ifconfig from net-tools-1.60)
> results in a netmask of 255.0.0.0, which is wrong in my situation.
 
Just change this to 

   ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.150  netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255

and be happy.

Deciding about bugs vs. "undefined behavior" is not my business,
so I bite my tongue about this topic ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser
-- 
Use ReiserFS to get a faster fsck and Ext2 to fsck slowly and gently.
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