NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/17040

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: TCP/IP w/ ethernet wd8003
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Date: 17 Nov 92 11:11:22 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (william E Davidsen) writes:

>In article <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]> writes:
>| our university is the net 140.78 in Austria. the pc where i want to install
>| linux is on a subnet at this university, 140.78.4, and the pc itself should
>| be assigned the ip-number 140.78.4.41.
>| The gateway is (that is the ROUTER, from the /usr/etc/inet/rc.local ???)
>| 140.78.4.31.
>|
>| I try to startup the device now:
>|
>| > #!/bin/sh
>| > config loopback 127.0.0.1
>| > config -r 140.78.4.31 -n 140.78.4.0 -d eth0 140.78.4.41
>| > inetd

>  Change the netmask to 255.255.255.0 for starters. The mask should be
>all ones down to the subnet level, so a class C subnet would use
>0xffffff00 as I've shown.

...but -n is not the netmask, it's the network address (ie. the
machine address ANDed with the netmask). Isn't this example a class B
network because 140 is between 128 and 191?

So my suggestion is maybe to try "-n 140.78.0.0" Works for me.

                Mark.
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