Re: 2.0.34

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 19980609225632.A3999@yodeller.rising.com.au>,
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >bash-2.00# ifconfig eth0 203.14.18.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast 203.14.18.127
> >SIOCSIFNETMASK: Invalid argument
> >
> >It doesn't work on 2.0.32 either, I just discovered.
> 
> Works for me:
> 
> # ifconfig eth0 203.14.18.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast 203.14.18.127

> ii  netbase         3.01-1         Basic TCP/IP networking binaries

I have netbase 2.16-1 (it's a bo box). However it appears to be a kernel
error message. Very strange. I will try to get a newer ifconfig and see
if that works.


Hamish
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