SUMMARY: netmask problem

Well, *that* sure was quick -- the problem, as pointed out by all 
2387 members of this list, even the ones who are asleep at the moment 
;-), was that I was confusing the term "network-number" with "IP 
number." I replaced the last dotted quad with a zero (64.65.85.0), 
and everything is working correctly now.

Many thanks to Davorin Bengez, Lieven Marchand (?), Peter Stokes, 
Mark McManus, Eric van de Meerakker, Nicolas Dorfsman, and Jay Leno 
for pointing this out.

- Vince

P.S. -- Just kidding about Jay Leno. I think he's a Linux user.


** Sometime around 01:27 -1000 03/13/02, Vince Sabio sent everyone:

>I just moved my machine to a different netblock, and noticed that I 
>was having routing problems within the [effective] Class A network 
>in which my machine resides. An ifconfig reveals that my netmask is 
>255.0.0.0:
>
>   bash-2.03$ /usr/sbin/ifconfig -a
>   lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
>           inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
>   hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
>           inet 64.65.85.212 netmask ff000000 broadcast 64.255.255.255
>   lo0: flags=2000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 8252 index 1
>           inet6 ::1/128
>   hme0: flags=2000841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2
>           inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe62:570d/10
>
>However, /etc/netmasks appears to be configured correctly (?):
>
>   bash-2.03$ cat /etc/netmasks
>   #
>   # The netmasks file associates Internet Protocol (IP) address
>   # masks with IP network numbers.
>   #
>   #       network-number  netmask
>   #
>   # The term network-number refers to a number obtained from the 
>Internet Network
>   # Information Center.  Currently this number is restricted to being a class
>   # A, B, or C network number.  In the future we should be able to support
>   # arbitrary network numbers per the Classless Internet Domain Routing
>   # guidelines.
>   #
>   # Both the network-number and the netmasks are specified in
>   # "decimal dot" notation, e.g:
>   #
>   #               128.32.0.0 255.255.255.0
>   #
>   64.65.85.212    255.255.255.0
>
>Any ideas what the problem is? Did I miss a configuration item here?
>
>Appreciate the help.
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>Vince Sabio                                                  vince@vjs.org
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