RES: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing
Always learning. Thanks, David.
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De: David Wright [mailto:d.wright@open.ac.uk]
Enviada em: Quinta-feira, 15 de Fevereiro de 2001 11:55
Para: GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Cc: luiz@infoporto.com.br; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Assunto: Re: RES: networking partly broken after upgrade to testing
Quoting Luiz Carlos S. de Alencar (luiz@infoporto.com.br):
> The network mask assigned to eth0, as reported [255.255.252.0] by
ifconfig,
> seems to be incorrect. Never heard about classless subnets in Class B
> networks. You probably have a Class C (/24) network [255.255.255.0] or a
> classless subnet of a Class C network, like [255.255.255.252].
I don't know what all this is about. Still, it woke me up.
> The route and ifconfig look okay to me (but I'm not 100% sure):
>
> $ route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> localnet * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
> default 142.130.48.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0
eth0
>
> $ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:05:EA:C6
> inet addr:142.130.48.235 Bcast:142.130.48.255
Mask:255.255.252.0
^^
That can't be right. You need the last two bits set, to correspond
with the two bits unset in the mask, i.e. 142.130.51.255
Cheers, running on a 255.255.254.0 mask,
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