>> 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

This machine is actually sitting in the ISP's datacenter. It works perfectly 
fine, I added the proper /32 netmask ifconfig at the top of my inetinit script.

>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...

Not really, using -iface argument you can reach any machine that is on the same 
physical network. 

route add -host GW_IP -iface DOM0_IP
route add default GW_IP
ping google.com
google.com is alive

>
>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.

I am not using IP addresses in my netmasks files... DOM0_IP is a placeholder 
for my 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. 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).

Thanks I'll try that.
 
 
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