SunOS 4.1.4 - network classes and netmask / broadcast a ddresses
Did not know my ABC of network classes like I thought I did. Was trying to
assign a class C submask to a class A network IP. Needed to add the fully
qualified network number for my class A network into file /etc/netmasks to
get correct netmask. Made the following entry into the file
/etc/netmasks...
10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0
then reboot and all is now fine.
OS:
SunOS 4.1.4
HARDWARE:
Sun SPARCstation 2 -thru- SS20
ORIGINAL QUESTION:
Netmask will not set to ffffff00 and broadcast will not set to 10.124.65.0
for the server IP of 10.124.65.75, How do I force the setting for netmask
and broadcast? -or- What am I doing wrong?
ORIGINAL DETAILS:
I am moving servers to a new LAN network and they are not coming up with the
netmask (ffffff00) and broadcast (10.124.65.0) values I want.
I am not using NIS or DNS.
My old IP was 159.45.41.127
The new IP is 10.124.65.11 and is set in file: /etc/hosts.
The file /etc/hostname.le0 matches my host's name.
The file /etc/defaultrouter matches up with entry in /etc/hosts and is my
new defaultrouter with IP of 10.124.65.1 and is pingable
The /etc/networks file looks like...
loopback 127
sun-ether 10.124.65 sunether ethernet localnet
sun-oldether 125 sunoldether
arpanet 10 arpa
ucb-ether 46 ucbether
The /etc/netmasks file looks like...
10.124 255.255.255.0
159.45 255.255.255.0
129.144 255.255.255.0
SUMMARY:
Did not know my ABC of network classes like I thought I did. All IP
addresses are 32 bit and have four octets. For SunOS 4.x, it thinks of life
in the pre-CIDR way.
Class A network IPs start wit a 0 bit = [1-126].x.x.x
loop back = 127.x.x.x
Class B network IPs start with bits 10 = [128-191].x.x.x
Class C network IPs start with bits 110 = [192-227].x.x.x
With CIDR, there are no such hard and fast rules. Instead subnet masks can
be applied to any IP address to create the size of network that is needed.
My misunderstanding was that my /etc/netmasks entry of "10.124" in the
pre-CIDR world (everything before
Solaris 2.6) was NOT a "network".
"10" is a network, "10.124" is not.
The file /etc/netmasks is used for subnetting classful networks.
I was moving from a class B network IP to a class A network IP and needed to
correctly name the new class A network in /etc/netmasks as first entry in
list to get sun to auto-set submask and broadcast to class C settings at
boot time (Correctly name = fully qualified network number "10.0.0.0"). This
is what I wanted and what I choose to do.
Also remember that /etc/netmasks is not consulted if YP is running. You'll
need to put this info on the YP server if that is the case. In my case YP
is not running.
Other suggestion was to manual set the netmask and broadcast address inside
of /etc/rc.local with something like...
ifconfig le0 inet 10.124.65.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.124.65.0
-trailers
But I did not do this and I did not test this.
ABOUT BROADCAST...
Broadcast packets go to all nodes on the network. Typically, broadcast
packets are used for address resolution and network management applications.
Multicast packets are designed to be sent to a subset of nodes. SunOS and
Solaris will automatically set the sun's broadcast IP based off its IP and
its netmasks setting. However, the default setting for SunOS and for
Solaris is different.
SunOS = x.x.x.0
Solaris = x.x.x.255
THANK YOU:
I would like to thank the following for their responses,
Michael Connolly [MConnoll@ckcorp.com],
Mark Niell [Mark_Neill@csx.com],
Peter Wallis [Peter.Wallis@icl.co.za],
Darren Dunham [ddunham@taos.com],
Michael Glasgow [glasgow@bridgept.com],
Rick Kelly [rmk@toad.rmkhome.com],
David E. Schwarze [dxschwarze@link-us.net],
Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio [chipper@llamas.net],
Dolores Capers [dcapers@netjets.com],
Parks Fields [parks@lanl.gov],
Thomas Knox [knoxth@cch.com],
Gavin Brennan [btigb@uis.doleta.gov],
Jerry Springer [jerry.springer@vcloud.com],
Shannon Wimberly [shannonw@isogen.com],
FROM:
Chris O'Neal <onealwc@agedwards.com>
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DATE:
10/24/2000
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