I'm not a net-newbie--I've been familiar with TCP/IP for some years now,
but this is not something I've had to deal with until now.
I recently got cable Internet access and my provider says my subnet mask
needs to be 255.255.255.129. Being a security-conscious kind of guy, I
set up a Debian 2.0 box to be my "firewall", but I can't
ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.129
I get
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Invalid argument
This is with
net-tools 1.45
ifconfig 1.33 (1998-03-02)
A netmask of 255.255.255.0 seems to work fine. I know that
255.255.255.129 can be a valid (though unusual) netmask, but what should
I set eth0 for? And if I can't set it for 255.255.255.129, what
problems might I expect?
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