netbsd-users: Re: pkgsrc: ftp connections continually time out. Not behind firewall

Subject: Re: pkgsrc: ftp connections continually time out. Not behind firewall
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Ha=DFfeld?= <andreas@hassfeld.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/11/2007 12:46:11

Hi,

>> Output of ifconfig -a
>>
>>
>> ifconfig -a
>> rtk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>          address: 00:0a:cd:10:d4:f1
>>          media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
>>          status: active
>>          inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>          inet6 fe80::20a:cdff:fe10:d4f1%rtk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> 
> 192.168.*.* is *not* an public Internet address.
> 

so,

inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 192.168.1.255

could it be that your netmask is borked? Shouldn't it be 0xffffff00 for 
that broadcast address?

Yours,
Andreas