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From: LNB@NRCVM01.BITNET (LISE BRAMALL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: IFCONFIG NETMASK PROBLEM
Message-ID: <89Dec7.145641est.57393@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 7 Dec 89 19:49:20 GMT
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HELP,
 I have recently acquired a 4D20G-S17 Iris 56 bitplane workstation and
am trying to attach to an existing TCPIP network. The networking people
have requested that I change my netmask to 255.255.255.0.0 to satisfy their
setup requirements because of the IP domain allocations. When I do this
change using

ifconfig ec0 netmask 255.255.255.0

the command is accepted but after I logout I cannot login again unless I
specify NOGRAPHICS as this netmasking change has ruined the windowing access.
I have performed the same netmask change on a SUN workstation and have had
no problems. Your attention to this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Please respond via BITNET.

Thank You
Lise Bramall  LNB@NRCVM01