Re: TCPIP SHOW ROUTE

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 03/31/05


Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:30:56 -0800

The /24 CIDR block correpsonds to the mask you have. The old mask would
have been a /29

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:08:40 +0000 (UTC), Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES
to reply <helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:

> TCPIP> SHOW ROUTE
>
> AN 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.206
> AH 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
> AH 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.203
> AH 192.168.1.203 192.168.1.203
>
> All of these are clear except the third one. I understand where the /24
> comes from; I USED TO have a network mask of 255.255.255.248. However,
> I changed it to 255.255.255.0 in both the volatile and permanent
> configuration (SET INTERFACE and SET CONFIGURATION INTERFACE). After
> that, there was an unplanned reboot due to a power failure. The new
> configuration came up properly (network mask 255.255.255.0 and broadcast
> mask 192.168.1.255 for all the individual addresses and the
> cluster-alias address. So where does the /24 come from? Is it stored
> permanently somewhere? (SHOW ROUTE/PERMANENT only has the equivalent of
> the first line above.)
>
> I have now changed it from 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.1.0 and, as
> expected, everything works fine. Will it stay this way after a reboot
> and/or restart of TCPIP? Where was it stored during the last reboot?
>



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