On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > 
> > I have a 16-host network with netmask 255.255.255.240 here, but 
> > ifconfig qe0 always shows 0xffffff00 as the netmask.
> > Setting it manually using ifconfig doesn't change it :-(
> > 
> # ifconfig qe0
> qe0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 130.240.16.38 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 130.240.16.255
> # ifconfig qe0 inet 130.240.16.38 netmask 0xfffffff0
> # ifconfig qe0
> qe0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 130.240.16.38 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 130.240.16.47
> # uname -r
> 1.3_ALPHA
> # 
> 
> `Works for me'.

I think it might be a problem with netbooted NetBSD. I seem to remember I
had a similar problem with a NetBSD/pmax which I netbooted. I managed to
get it correct in the startup sequence, but I never did get ifconfig to
set it correct at a later point.

	Johnny

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