I don't think you can have 128.42.154.255 for an address... Node 255 and 0
are reserved under most conditions 0 refers to the entirrre net and 255 to
broadcast.

--  Don

On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> > Already had one of these, although I modified it a bit now, just says
> > "inet host12". The longish errors have gone away, but the thing is still
> > questioning my values.  On boot:
> > 
> > ifconfig: host12: bad value
> > host12: bad value
> > #: bad value
> > 
> > The only thing I can think of is that I've typed host12 where I should
> > have typed something quite different, but no idea where that might be.
> > And I still can't telnet to anywhere.  I'll keep poking at it, but further
> > suggestions are welcome.  Thank you all for even this much help, it's a
> > sad little machine but I love it so.
> 
> Ok, hmm, maybe the problem is that I didn't actually look at my files 
> first.  Here's more or less what I have in /etc/hosts:
> 
> 127.0.0.1	localhost loopback
> 
> 128.42.154.39	mycroft-holmes.brown.rice.edu mycroft-holmes mh
> 
> And so, my /etc/hostname.ae0 has:
> 
> inet mycroft-holmes 255.255.255.0 128.42.154.255 up
> 
> Where the 255's are my netmask and the other is my gateway address.  
> Perhaps this will work better (i.e. make sure that the name you have in 
> hostname.ae0 actually appears by itself and not just part of another name in 
> /etc/hosts).
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
> Consultant                                        Rice University
> Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX
> 
> 

+++++++++++++++++++++

dbwoodw@earthlink.net
dwood1@surfair.com
webmaster@surfair.com

http://www.surfair.com