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Re: 240/4

  • From: Andreas Ott
  • Date: Fri Oct 19 13:54:03 2007 
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:35:52PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> Interestingly, my unpatched Ubuntu 7.04 notebook would let me install 
> routes for networks in 240/4, but would not let me configure an interface 
> IP in 240/4.

although this is not [email protected] , here is a hint for those who keep
trying:

# /sbin/ifconfig eth1 240.1.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCGIFADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBROADCAST: Cannot assign requested address
# /sbin/ip add add  240.1.2.3/24 dev eth1
# /sbin/ip add show eth1
3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:30:48:5d:0a:af brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 240.1.2.3/24 scope global eth1

Now using this IP with the binaries that are of the same vintage as
ifconfig(), that's really a discussion for [email protected] .

-andreas
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Andreas Ott      K6OTT               [email protected]