Kugutsumen wrote:
> My ISP is forcing the use of a netmask of 255.255.255.255.

And your interface is not point-to-point?  I fail to see how anything will work 
with that configuration.  No IP addresses will be considered on-link, since 
nothing except for your IP address is in the "subnet", and you'll therefore not
be able to configure any gateways for off-link routing...

Are you sure you don't want to configure a point-to-point interface to an ISP 
endpoint instead?

> I have in my /etc/netmasks :
> 
> DOM0_IP 255.255.255.255
> 
> but when I reboot, my netmask and broadcast is set incorrectly:

First, I don't believe that you can use names in /etc/netmasks.  Try using a 
literal IP address.

Personally, I wouldn't use /etc/netmasks at all.  A better method is to 
associate the netmask with the IP address in your /etc/hostname.<bla> file, 
like 
this:

1.2.3.4/16

In your case, that would be /32 (if /32 is in fact what you want, which I 
doubt).

-Seb
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