On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, jack craig <jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I learned about ip address, the network & host portions of the IP and > the netmask to > differentiate the host & network numbers. I learned a class A addr used > a mask of 10.255.255.255. > > While my FC11 works fine, I was looking at this network config and found the > below!!! > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:18:FE:75:91 > inet addr:10.0.0.100 Bcast:11.255.255.255 Mask:254.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fefe:7591/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:8291136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:8464483 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:8084873362 (7.5 GiB) TX bytes:8107599565 (7.5 GiB) > Interrupt:35 > > cat ./devices/ifcfg-eth0 > # Networking Interface > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=static > DNS1=10.0.0.199 > GATEWAY=10.0.0.129 > HWADDR=00:26:18:FE:75:91 > IPADDR=10.0.0.100 > NETMASK=10.0.0.255 > ONBOOT=yes > > My question, if the ifcfg-eth0 has the right IP & Mask, why does the > ifconfig display not agree? > More, why does it work as is ???!!! No idea how/why it works but your netmask is incorrect and must be the reason for the incorrect broadcast and mask values in your ifconfig output. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
