Re: ifconfig and SIOCSIFADDR

From: Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 11:05:26 EST

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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

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