On Wed,02.Sep.09, 08:59:13, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi all, > Let a /etc/network/interfaces be, with these lines: > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.15 > network 192.168.1.0 > broadcast 192.168.1.255 > gateway 192.168.1.254 > > What is the role of 'network'? > I mean:
You can drop 'network' because it can be calculated, but you should add 'netmask'. > If I am on a 192.168.1.8/27: > > address 192.168.1.8 > netmask 255.255.255.224 I never quite understood classless addressing, but doesn't that mean your gateway is in a different network? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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