On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:21:32 +0100 
 "Roger Strandberg" <roger@mbox314.swipnet.se> wrote:

 > i use netbsd 1.2.1
 > and have made a file called hostname.ed0 with
 > inet 123.123.123.2 255.255.255.0 123.123.123.255
 > dest 123.123.123.1

Well, the "dest" line is wrong... "dest" is only for point-to-point type
interfaces.

If you do:

	ifconfig ed0 inet 123.123.123.2 255.255.255.0

manually, what happens?

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