From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 11 23:20:54 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA14869 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 23:20:54 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA14863 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 23:20:51 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03616; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 08:20:47 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA05626; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 08:20:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA14191; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 08:18:34 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508120618.IAA14191@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 950726-SNAP lp0/nfs install bug ? To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 08:18:33 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199508112059.WAA27645@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Aug 11, 95 10:59:36 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 560 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mark Murray wrote: > > > Hmmm. Anyone willing to give me a little formula to calculate > > netmask based on IP address? Then I could also fill it in.. :-) > > You used to be able/allowed to do this, but not any more. The nic/noc > (I can't remember which) now gives out blocks or ranges of addresses > to providers,... That's not the question. The problem in question is only providing a _default_ netmask. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)