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

Subject: Re: pkgsrc: ftp connections continually time out. Not behind firewall or switch
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Martin Bock <ixel@gmx.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/11/2007 13:23:08

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 01:03:16PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:46:11PM +0100, Andreas Haßfeld wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Why would that be wrong?  It's just a private /26 subnet.

Yes, but the broadcast is not on that subnet. The /26 subnet contains 
only adresses from 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.63, the broadcast appears to 
be 192.168.1.255 however.

Best regards, Martin

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