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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Setting Netmask Subnet bits on AT&T machine using TWG TCP/IP
Message-ID: <764@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Aug 90 19:12:06 GMT
References: <9008281051.AA19113@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <9008281051.AA19113@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> CSSNET@NUSDISCS.BITNET writes:
>I am working on a AT&T 3B/4000 machine running on UNIX SYS V Rel 3.1.5.
>We are currently running ENHANCED TCP/IP WIN/3B Rel 2.1.1.
>
>We are using a Class B internet address, and we would like to set our subnet
>mask to 255.255.255.0 instead of the default 255.255.0.0.

You have my sympathy; the release 2.x WIN code for 3B systems doesn't support
subnetting.  Ifconfig, BTW, is in /usr/etc.  The first 3B release from Wollongong
supporting subnets is release 3; the current version on the 3b2 line is 3.0.1.
I do not know if an upgrade is available for the '4000.

						Bob Halloran
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