From: Andrew Tridgell (tridge@andosl.anu.edu.au)
Date: 03/17/93


From: tridge@andosl.anu.edu.au (Andrew Tridgell)
Subject: Re: [Q] Is there subnetting support in Linux tcpip ?
Date: 17 Mar 1993 23:47:34 GMT

In article <dvs.79.732374944@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>, dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) writes:
> Is there a method to provide a subnet mask to tcpip ?
> A netmask entry in the hosts file is simply ignored.

I seem to have subnet support and I didn't do anything special to get
it. I am using 0.99pl6. The subnet seems to be derived from the
network entry in the /etc/hosts file which is "grepped" by /etc/rc.net
and used as a parameter to the config call.

We are subnetted and I have had no problems connecting to or from
machiines outside my subnet.

Do you have a correct router and network entry in your /etc/hosts?
Does your /etc/rc.net grep for them and pass them to config?

Cheers,

Andrew

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