On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Alan Altmark wrote: > The mask in the NIC as shown by Q NIC DETAILS is irrelevant. It doesn't > do anything - it's just a thingie the driver can set. This is true of > both virtual and real OSAs.
If you look closely, you will see that the netmask shown is the 'natural' netmask for the pre-CIDR address class of the IP address you've defined. That's why yours, Mark, say 255.255.255.0 against your 192.x.x.x addresses (192.x.x.x is a Class C address) and yours, Marcy, show 255.0.0.0 against your 10.x.x.x addresses (10.x.x.x is a Class A address). This came up in the past, and a developer (don't you love it when people say "I heard this from development" -- and no, I don't think it was you Alan!) said "working as designed". Sure, before CIDR. But now that VARSUBNETTING in your PROFILE TCPIP is ignored because the assumption is that you want CIDR, I can't help but think that this is just misleading and confusing. IMHO, it either needs to be fixed or removed. Cheers, Vic Cross
