On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:

> > UDP  from server3100.thod:1023 to 10.255.255.255:sunrpc on eth0
> > UDP  from server3100.thod:1023 to 10.255.255.255:sunrpc on eth0
> > 
> > Shouldn't that be 10.10.10.6:sunrpc since 10.10.10.6 is the
> > nfs+bootserver? I'm really desperate.
> 
> Your server3100 makes a broadcast, and if then your 10.10.10.6 should
> answer! As said, it should. What does a tcpdump tell about the answer?

My guess is that he's using a subnet mask, and the network don't recognize
network broadcasts when you have a subnet...

People seem to love to use a netmask of 0xffffff00 on net 10, for some
obscure reason (it cannot possibly be that they don't know any better...
:-)

	Johnny

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