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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:7329 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1684 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!interlan!timj From: timj@freebsd.ncm.interlan.com (Tim Jackson) Subject: Re: FreeBSD - please help me setup SLIP Organization: The Internet Access Company Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 02:06:29 GMT Message-ID: <CHn76t.921@interlan.Interlan.COM> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <CHEE9M.3Kn@Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@interlan.Interlan.COM (news account) Lines: 28 Ramzi Al-Majid (ramzi@tigger.cs.colorado.edu) wrote: : hi [cruft deleted] : : i put the following lines in my /etc/hosts file, bahrain : is my box host name and netblazer is the school's slip server : 128.138.243.113 netblazer.cs.colorado.edu netblazer : 128.138.198.27 bahrain.cs.colorado.edu bahrain [ more deleted ....] : >>> - Run `ifconfig inet sl0 clientname servername netmask 0xffffff00` : when i ran : iconfig inet sl0 bahrain netblazer netmask 0xffffff00 : i get an error saying : !@@#$#%^&* ioctl !@#$%^&* no such interface I think you may have a problem with such a netmask. The two addresse you gave are not in the same class C subnet, but your netmask is a class c mask try 0xffff0000. ---------------------------- ||| Tim Jackson/NCM/TIAC ||| ----------------------------