I have been running BBB networking for some time using a netmask of
255.255.255.0; I now have to expand the network
to 500 hosts, so I changed the mask to 255.255.254.0 to give a network at
192.168.0.0/23. I edited /etc/network/interfaces,
but that seems to change nothing as per following; blessed connman is NOT
running:
(got the following off the serial connection)
Debian GNU/Linux 8 beaglebone ttyS0
BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2017-03-19
root@beaglebone:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.231
netmask 255.255.254.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
root@beaglebone:~# ip addr
1: lo...
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b0:d5:cc:ca:18:0d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.231/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::b2d5:ccff:feca:180d/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: usb0...
4: usb1: ...
5: can0: ...
6: can1: ...
root@beaglebone:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b0:d5:cc:ca:18:0d
inet addr:192.168.1.231 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::b2d5:ccff:feca:180d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:34286 (33.4 KiB) TX bytes:7710 (7.5 KiB)
Interrupt:173
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