Re: 2.0.34

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

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
# dpkg -l netbase
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  netbase         3.01-1         Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
# uname -a
Linux drinkel.cistron.nl 2.0.34 #1 Sat Jun 6 18:30:36 CEST 1998 i586 unknown

Hmm, that's a pretty old version of netbase, right? Okay I'll copy
an ifconfig from my computer at works which is more recent (3.09-1):


# ifconfig eth0 203.14.18.1 netmask 255.255.255.128 broadcast 203.14.18.127 
#

No errors ..

Mike.
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