Re: ifconfig network resolution
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:18:42PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> Anyone have tips for him right now.... *while he can read them*
> related to the language appearing to switch teams on him?
When pasting commands and output to an English-speaking mailing list,
it's often a good idea to do "export LC_ALL=C" beforehand. Unless your
commands actually involve non-ASCII characters, or the behavior of a
command in a non-C locale, in which case: good luck.
As far as ifconfig goes (which, by the way, is considered deprecated by
many people), the traditional syntax is:
ifconfig <iface> <ip> netmask <netmask>
You generally don't need to specify the broadcast address, or the network
address. These can be calculated from the IP + netmask. Those options
exist only for extremely bizarre networks that used "all zeros" for the
broadcast instead of "all ones". No new networks should be set up this
way.
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