Robert Hinds writes:
> Changing the hostname.nfo0 contents to include a single line containing
> 10.0.0.17/24 corrected the problem I was experiencing.
>
> I was following the instruction from "Configuring Systems on the Local
> Network" http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/SYSADV3/ipconfig-63.html and
> Administering Individual Network Interfaces
Ugh; you're quite right. That book is just plain wrong. In fact,
it's got multiple errors -- "netmask + 255.0.0.0" (for instance) isn't
legal syntax.
I'll file a bug on it. Thanks for pointing it out!
> Originally, I was using the 10.0.0.17 netmask + 255.255.255.0 format in the
> hostname.nfo0 string. I will try that and see if that format has a problem.
That won't work. You can use "netmask +" (which means "look up the
subnet mask based on the IP address using the obsolete /etc/netmasks
facility") or "netmask 255.255.255.0" (which means "set the netmask to
this exact value"), but you can't use both "+" and a value at the same
time.
I'd recommend, though, using CIDR notation. It's quick, simple, and
effective. That would be:
10.0.0.17/24
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