linimon@killer.dallas.tx.us (Mark Linimon) (02/09/89)
In article <465@acheron.UUCP> you write: >(this machine we have and wish to subnet...) has SunOS 3.x. The x in 3.x is significant. Before 3.4 I think you're hosed. Here is how I did it on a test system on a Sun-3 running 4.0, for a customer running a Sun-2 at SunOS 3.4(!). Created file /etc/netmasks: 128.18.0.0<tab>255.255.248.0 In /etc/rc.boot: I think we had /etc/ifconfig le0 $hostname -trailers up netmask 255.255.248.0 but you probably already tried this. I can't tell if the /etc/netmasks thing is a 4.0 feature or not, but I think it is. I do know that the man page for ifconfig as of 3.2 did not list the netmask option. It _is_ there as of 3.4 and 3.5, however. Mark Linimon Mizar, Inc. uucp: {convex, killer, texsun}!mizarvme!linimon