[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana server networking problem.

[James Carlson]

On 7/2/2013 6:11 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> It seems that the ISP did provide an 8-address block of routable
> IP addresses, so the default /24 netmask assigned to the interface
> is not correct (though it is not quite a problem unless you need
> to contact hosts on other ranges of the subnet). To fix this
> properly you'd need to update the /etc/netmasks file with this
> entry:
> 
> 69.146.183.56   255.255.255.248

/etc/netmasks is so 1980s.  I suggest "/24" (CIDR notation) instead.
It's simpler to use and doesn't have the sketchy matching heuristics
that /etc/netmasks uses.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>