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Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point)

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On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:57:47 +0900
Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:

> Experimenting from the command line, I find myself puzzled about the
> arguments for ifconfig.
> 
> Reading the manual, it would appear that the arguments for ifconfig
> should be something like this:
> 
>     ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.224 netmask 255.255.255.224
> broadcast 10.19.23.223 10.19.23.94
> 
> But the command returns with
> 
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: Can't allocate this address.
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Can't allocate this address.
> 
> If I repeat the command, it gives no errors, but the netmask and
> broadcast address end up full class A (255.0.0.0 and 10.255.255.255).
> 
> Anyone have an idea what's happening?
> 

Could you humour me for a moment, and try the exercise with one of the
192.168... networks, with the same sized subnet?

I've seen this kind of behaviour a very long time ago, and I can't
really believe it is still happening, but...

-- 
Joe

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ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using  netbook's wireless as access point) Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 04:00 +0200
  Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using  netbook's wireless as access point) Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 08:50 +0200
  Re: ifconfig network resolution Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-06-10 09:00 +0200
    Re: ifconfig network resolution Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 12:20 +0200
      Re: ifconfig network resolution Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-06-10 13:20 +0200
        Re: ifconfig network resolution Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 16:40 +0200
          Re: ifconfig network resolution Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-06-10 17:00 +0200
            Re: ifconfig network resolution Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 22:10 +0200
              Re: ifconfig network resolution Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 22:20 +0200
                Re: ifconfig network resolution Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 07:10 +0200
                Re: ifconfig network resolution Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 10:00 +0200
                Re: ifconfig network resolution Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-13 14:30 +0200
          Re: ifconfig network resolution Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 23:00 +0200
            Re: ifconfig network resolution Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 01:00 +0200
              Re: ifconfig network resolution Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 01:50 +0200
              Re: ifconfig network resolution Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-06-11 04:20 +0200
                Re: ifconfig network resolution Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 09:50 +0200
                Re: ifconfig network resolution Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-13 12:30 +0200
                Introductory iproute2 documentation (Was Re: ifconfig network  resolution) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-06-13 14:40 +0200
                Re: Introductory iproute2 documentation (Was Re: ifconfig network  resolution) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-13 16:50 +0200
  Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using  netbook's wireless as access point) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-06-11 10:00 +0200
    Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using  netbook's wireless as access point) Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 10:10 +0200
      Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using  netbook's wireless as access point) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-06-11 10:20 +0200

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