Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!bway.UUCP!dpk From: dpk@bway.UUCP (Doug Kingston) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Happy New Year and * h e l p * Message-ID: <8801082307.aa03391@BWAY.BWAY.UUCP> Date: 9 Jan 88 04:07:32 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 9 By default, Sun does not initialize the netmask with ifconfig e.g. ifconfig le0 `hostname` netmask 255.255.255.0 This needs to be done on the server only, since a 3.3 or 3.4 SunOS diskless node will make a ICMP netmask request. I am interested in knowing if this is the problem. -Doug-