Subject: Small configuration problem on SLS 1.3 (Solution) From: damiano@erato.dei.unipd.it (Damiano Bolla) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 09:23:30 GMT
First of all I would like to praise the work of everybody !!!
Linux is really great !
I installed SLS 1.3 on our university network. While doing so I found
a small configuration problem with SLS.
The problem is the broadcast setup.
We have a class B network 147.162.0.0.
The broadcast ends up to be 147.2.255.255, this is wrong since
or netmask is 255.255.255.0.
The right broadcast is 147.162.2.255.
With the wrong broadcast it is not possible to install from NFS.
I suggest that the SLS setup asks for :
hostname
IP-address of hostname
Network (Without netmask) I.e. 147.162.0.0 and not 147.162.2.0
Netmask
From this the broadcast should follow to be correct.
Damiano
P.S. The best place I found to set the right broadcast is the boot disk
in the file /etc/rc.net