Experimenting from the command line, I find myself puzzled about the arguments for ifconfig.
Reading the manual, it would appear that the arguments for ifconfig should be something like this: ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.224 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 10.19.23.223 10.19.23.94 But the command returns with SIOCSIFNETMASK: Can't allocate this address. SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Can't allocate this address. If I repeat the command, it gives no errors, but the netmask and broadcast address end up full class A (255.0.0.0 and 10.255.255.255). Anyone have an idea what's happening? -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define, and stop all integer size bugs with a bare cast. More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html