Peter Memishian wrote: > > > > > After hotplugging (hot swapping) or Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) test, > > > > our Network driver's netmask and broadcast address sometime become > > > > different. > > > > > > > > For example, the network driver instance was set as netmask ffffff00 > > > > and broadcast 77.77.77.255, but after hotplugging, netmask becomes > > > > ff000000 and broadcast 77.255.255.255. > > > > > > > > I am wondering who controls netmask and broadcast address for each > > > > network adapter port? > > > > > > The relevant /etc/hostname.<if> file. > > > > Doesn't DR also stash away information using ifconfig's "configinfo"? > > Yes, but that's only used if the removal operation fails.
I mentioned it because the original poster said that this happens "sometime." It sounds like a description of an intermittent problem, which is the sort of thing you'd might expect to accompany failures of some sort. It'd probably be nice to have some logs. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
