On 27-Sep-99 Pollywog wrote: > If this is the wrong place to ask this question, just let me know. > > I installed a script that configures ipchains for me, and it gives me > some > error messages about an incorrect netmask, but the author of the script > told me the error messages are in error because his script "groks" the > netmask from 'ifconfig'. > > I did 'ifconfig' and I get something interesting for ppp0. > Why does ppp0 not have the netmask 255.255.255.0 just as my network card > has?
-------snip------------ Someone just explained to me that the netmask with all bits set to 1 is used because the interface ppp0 is using P-t-P. That explains it. -- Andrew