Re: New to Debian (I'm a Gentoo user) - static IP vs DHCP
On 1/6/14, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> > Tanstaafl wrote:
>> >> # The primary network interface
...
>> >> network ###.###.###.###
>> >> broadcast ###.###.###.###
>> >
>> > Since you already fixed your issue I'll just comment on your interfaces
>> > file. BTW, there is a man page for it: interfaces(5).
>> > 3. it's safe to get rid of 'network' and 'broadcast', they are
>> > calculated from address and netmask ;)
>>
>> Actually not. Some home adsl modems and routers these days default to
>> 172.XX.. and 10. subnets, and Debian (Linux kernel?) chooses networks
>> such as 255.255.0.0 and 255.0.0.0 and correspondingly for broadcasts.
>
> I think you have misread "network" as "netmask". The "netmask" is
Ack. My bad :)
Thank you for spotting that.
Zenaan
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