lee@sleepy.unm.edu (Lee Ward) (12/31/88)
ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes: >The documentation seems to imply that a subnet mask can be any number of >bits in length. Is this really true?... Yes, it is true. We have all the architectures you mention and more. For us, the ifconfig line would look like: ifcongig le0 `hostname` netmask 255.255.248.0 broadcast 129.24.15.255 Where `hostname` runs the hostname command. ifconfig looks in /etc/hosts for the address of your machine. The `netmask 255.255.248.0' gives us 5 bits of subnet. Finally, the `broadcast 129.24.15.255' sets the broadcast address to a host part of all ones. In some cases this can be inferred. --Lee (Ward)