Re: 2.0.34

[David Wright <D.Wright@open.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt 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.
> 
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has replied. Any other ideas?

It's a long shot but what does the rest of what would be your 
/etc/init.d/network say? I only ask because you've played around with 
newer kernels which do things differently in this file.

Cheers,

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