Bug 3564 - ifconfig does not accept very small subnets (such as DSL)
Summary: ifconfig does not accept very small subnets (such as DSL)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-06-18 09:59 UTC by Don Beusee
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-07-13 19:22:44 UTC
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Description Don Beusee 1999-06-18 09:59:31 UTC 
I have a DSL service (Covad) which requires me to set the
subnet mask to a subnet having only 5 hosts:
gateway    : 152.68.6.249
subnet mask: 152.68.6.248
IP's to use: 152.68.6.<250-254>
Unfortunately Linux does not let me set the subnet mask to
the above value.  Solaris and Windows 98 do, and it works
fine on those OS's.
Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 1999-07-13 19:22:59 UTC 
Please try a subnet mask of 255.255.255.248
152.68.6.248 is not a valid subnet mask.
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