Re: (PM) ether0 not responding... (fwd)

Wayne Bouchard (web@typo.org)
Sat, 22 Nov 1997 02:30:35 -0700 (MST)

Yep.. "set broadcast high". Using the low end of the network as the
broadcast is a holdover from pre 4.2BSD networking. I still don't
understand why Livingston defaults to low broadcast when its getting
extroardinarily hard to find devices on the net that must use this
convention.

> Um... isn't broadcast supposed to be .255? I looked on all the other PMs and
> they are all on .0
>
> pm6> sh ether0
> Ethernet Status: IP - Enabled IPX - Disabled
>
> Interface Addr: 206.115.104.248
> Netmask: 255.255.255.0
> Broadcast Address: 206.115.104.0
>
> IPX Network: 00000000
> IPX Frame Type: ETHERNET_802.2
> Ethernet Address: 00:c0:05:04:0f:12
>
> Routing: RIP(Quiet (Off))
> Input Filter:
> Output Filter:

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