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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!wupost!uunet!spooky!witr From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow) Subject: Re: Possible bug in ifconfig's /etc/networks lookup Message-ID: <1992Aug9.155013.23788@rwwa.COM> Sender: news@rwwa.COM (News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: spooky Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates References: <1992Aug09.025301.13940@NeoSoft.com> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1992 15:50:13 GMT Lines: 22 In article <1992Aug09.025301.13940@NeoSoft.com>, karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: | Specifically, if we use one of the ifconfig lines in /etc/netstart, | which use symbolic names for netmasks, and it's supposed to get them | from /etc/networks, we can't get out to our network, but explicitly | specifying 255.255.255.0... it works. This is because /etc/networks is ill formatted. The correct format in in the online manual pages, but for reference official-name network-id aliases... for example my-netmask 255.255.255.0 rwwa-netmask rwwa-net 192.124.97.0 rwwa.com (this bug has been sent to Jolitz) -- --- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA 01907 USA Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM