Thick Ethernet/Sun networking problems

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Sun Nov 4 14:00:47 2001

> > > Don't forget to restore the original address with "ifconfig le0
111.0.0.1
> > > broadcast 111.255.255.255 netmask 255.0.0.0 up" when you've finished
> :-)
> >
> > What does 'broadcast' do (other than the obvious)?
>
> It's just a way of explicitly stating what the broadcast address for that
> interface is. In every legitimate case I can think of, it should be
> redundant if you provide the netmask (or the netmask is redundant if you

Oh, it's the broadcast paramater for the ifconfig command,
when the lines wrapped, it made it look like a separate
command, thus my confusion...

-dq
 
Received on Sun Nov 04 2001 - 14:00:47 GMT