Re: conflicting network-cards?

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 07:08:56PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
| On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:22:31AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:
| > also sprach dman (on Sat, 01 Sep 2001 07:08:38PM -0400):
| > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:51:57PM +0200, Joerg Huber wrote:
| > > 
| > > | > ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up
| > > 
| > > This doesn't look right to me.  0.0.0.0 would be the broadcast address
| >                                                        ^^^^^^^^^
| >                                                        network
| > 
| > 0.255.255.255 would be the broadcast for 0/8

Err, right, I meant the network address :-).

| <mode="nitpicking">
| Actually, in older BSD net code the network was also the broadcast
| address. This still works on some IP stacks (try pinging your network
| address sometime).
| </mode>

Actually, I didn't know that.

-D