Phil,
Does a Unix box not think it is a router and also by default attempt to run RIP. If
this is the case the the box will advertise itself. RIPv2 may also send the mask.
Just a thought.
Teunis,
Hobart, Tasmania
Australia.
On Friday, December 01, 2000 at 09:24:55 PM, Phil Barker wrote:
> Hi Gang,
> I had Fluke in this week showing me one of their
> gadgets for basic problem determination i.e 10/100 Meg
> duplexity. Which pairs are being used etc.
>
> It discovered one of our Unix Servers, and gave it a
> classfull A mask i.e /8 which I new was incorrect from
> experience it has 8 bits of subnetting i.e /16.
>
> My question is, do you know of any circumstance when a
> Server would need to advertise its own network mask
> for any reason ? I cannot think of one off the top of
> my head, apart from if it had routing enabled, which
> it hasn't.
>
> I suspect I could extract it via a SNMP GET command,
> if SNMP is enabled on the Server !!!
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil
>
> PS : tried RFC 792 & 1256 but no luck in there.
>
>
>
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