Urgent 4.9 networking problems

[Kevin Stevens]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Dave Raven wrote:

> # ifconfig fxp1
> fxp1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet x.y.186.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast x.y.186.255
>         inet x.y.186.1 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.1
>         inet x.y.186.15 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.15
>         inet x.y.186.14 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.14
>         inet x.y.186.142 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.142
>         inet x.y.186.33 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.33
>         inet x.y.186.124 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.124
>         inet x.y.186.250 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.250
>         inet x.y.186.122 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.122
>         inet x.y.186.25 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.25
>         inet x.y.186.127 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast x.y.186.127

I don't disagree with the other posters that mentioned DNS timeouts, but
in addition those broadcast addresses aren't right.  Since all the
addresses are within the same /24 subnet, they should all be .255 (which
is the default, so you wouldn't need to specify them.

KeS