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From: anh@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Viet Anh Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Inquiry about broadcasting an address on a HP9000/320 (6.2 HP-UX)
Message-ID: <1070@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Nov 89 17:54:13 GMT
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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Two of our HP9000/320s think that they broadcast the addresses 18.85.255.255,
when instead, according to the outside world they are actually 18.0.0.0!

  # /etc/ifconfig lan0 
  lan0: flags=64b<UP,BROADCAST,ROUTE,RUNNING,IEEE,ETHER>
  inet 18.85.0.30 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 18.85.255.255

We couldn't find any reference on how to re-set their broadcasting addresses.
The following command won't do the job:

  # /etc/ifconfig lan0 $NODENAME netmask 255.255.0.0 up

We appreciate any suggestion and reference to the problem.

Thanks.

-anh (anh@media-lab.media.mit.edu)
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