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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.