Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!bloom-beacon!husc6!cmcl2!adm!xadmx!VINCE%UCONNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu From: VINCE%UCONNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Setting netmask Message-ID: <17644@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 25 Nov 88 21:07:59 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 14 In trying to conect our Sun network to the outside world, we have run into avery strange problem in trying to set the netmask. Supposeddly adding the netmask option to the ifconfig command in rc.boot will do it. In fact this works on the diskless clients (in fact one sees the comforting message "Setting the netmask" during the boot process), but it does not work on the file server, where the option seems to be ignored. This leads to nasty consequenses for the clients, which can be corrected by logging in as root (to the server of course) and typing the ifconfig command with netmask option. Something is clearly amiss, and we don't want to have to type in this command after every boot. What is the effective way to set up the netmask. ***************** Long sigatures dont mix with slow tranmissions. VINCE@UCONNVM.bitnet Acknowledge-To: