Re: [tkined] invalid Netmask?

Erik Schoenfelder (schoenfr@gaertner.de)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:08:27 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:27:11 +0200,
Thomas Haberland <thaberland@hawkeye.net> said:

Thomas> Discovering my network tkined complains about an invalid
Thomas> netmask of "0.255.255.255" for appr. 50% of all clients.
Thomas> Message, for example: "Please check the netmask 0.255.255.255
Thomas> for 1.1.4.174 on class A network 1."

Thomas> We use the netmask 255.255.255.0, [...]

hmm, sounds you have devices in your network building an byte-swapped
and therefore wrong icmp mask-reply.

are these devices with the 0.255.255.255 netmask reply from the same
manufacturer ?

Erik

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