Access to the net. (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:08:28 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time alexm@agetech.net shaped the electrons to say...
> Async Map: L:00000000 R:ffffffff 00000000

Whoa! Why the heck are the escaping EVERYTHING? That is going to hit
performance in a major way.

This is on *their* config, nothing you can do.

>pm1> set ether0 netmask 255.255.255.0
>ether0 netmask changed from 205.152.26.128 to 255.255.255.0
>pm1> save all
>The netmask was incorrect. Would that be the problem?????? remember it
>works fine its just

It can cause weird problems. Looks like someone accidentally set the
netmask as an IP address.

>Name Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Resets Queue
>ether0 8812443 1 8120472 0 10900 0 0
>Doesnt look too bad?

Looks ok. But a bad netmask probably will not cause 'errors' per se, just
routing problems.

-MZ

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