woodward@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Jeff Woodward) (02/14/91)
After having obtained a Class B internet number assignment, I am building a subnetted network wherein I am using a subnet mask to create, obviously, subnets. However, whenever I assign a subnet in which the fourth octet happens to be zero, things don't work correctly. i.e. whenever I assign a network number in /etc/networks in which the last octet is zero, e.g. test.net.edu nn.nn.nn.0 where nn are any valid integers. When I do this, and then do a netstat -r, the system shows the network number, not the network name (e.g. test.net.edu) as it should. Also, the routing funtions (including broadcasts of RIP packets) just don't work right. Anybody know a good fix for this, or do we all simply have to throw away every sub-network number that ends with a zero octet. (which is quite a few if you have a lot of subnet mask bits set!) Thanks in advance for your help.