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Re: [MiNT] Samba client



On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 14:45 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Peter Slegg wrote:
> > bash-2.05a# route
> > Destination         Gateway             Flags   Ref      Use Metric Iface
> > default             192.168.0.1         UGD       1     1261      0 rtk0
> > 192.168.0.201       *                   UH        1      866      0 lo0
> > 127.0.0.0           *                   U         1        0      0 lo0
> > 127.0.0.1           *                   UH        1        8      0 lo0
> 
> When I first saw that when struggling with MiNT network, I wondered why 
> there is no subnet mask in the route table, like in decent operating 
> systems.
> 
> In the destination field, which ones are single host addresses and which 
> ones are network addresses (= joker) ?
> I guess the addresses should be split using their natural subnet mask, 
> according to their (obsolete) address class. Then if the host bits are 
> all set to 0, the whole thing is considered to be the address of a network ?

The whole network thing is on my radar to fix up.

Alan.