Whooooops! My bad. *hangs head in shame* Hee. S'what I get for
posting a half hour before my last shift of the week ends. Didn't
read far enough. But I bet, still, that what I said is what he
was thinking. ;)
Jamie
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 06:33:09AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Not on epX it ain't!!!
>
>
> >From man ifconfig:
> dest_address
> Specify the address of the correspondent on the other end of a
> point to point link.
>
> gndrsh:root {1327}# !1324
> ifconfig de0 inet 194.134.130.170 194.134.128.1 netmask 255.255.252.0
> gndrsh:root {1328}# Jan 28 06:30:34 gndrsh gated[108]: if_rtup: UP route for
>interface de0 194.134.130.170/255.255.252
>
> gndrsh:root {1328}# ifconfig -a
> de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 194.134.130.170 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 194.134.128.1
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ether 00:c0:f0:04:2c:d4
> media: autoselect (10base5/AUI) status: active
> supported media: autoselect 10base5/AUI 10base2/BNC 10baseT/UTP
><full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP
>
> ...
> That 194.134.128.1 actual screws up the broadcast address, which is what
> the second argument to the underlying ioctl gets used for when it is
> set!!!
>
>
> --
> Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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