On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, W. Reilly Cooley wrote:

> But now I've got a machine with the wrong netmask.  Can I configure the
> Sun to use a different broadcast or netmask?  Will it even understand a
> /23 subnet, being from the days before CIDR?

Sure. The Sun may be from the days before CIDR, but NetBSD isn't.
Just set up the ifconfig_le0 line in /etc/rc.conf to configure the
interface properly:

    ifconfig_le0="inet 192.168.123.129 netmask 0xffffff80"

or whatever.

> This brings up request: searchable mail archives.

As pointed out on www.netbsd.org under `Mailing Lists', you can
find them at

    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/htdig/

cjs
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