Netmask issue

[Antonio Guerrieri]

It works!

Thanks again

Antonio

On Oct 2, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Antonio Guerrieri wrote:

>
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
>
>> At 17:16 +0200 1/10/09, Antonio Guerrieri wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have a dhcp3 server running on debian lenny hosted as virtual  
>>> machine on a xen server.
>>>
>>> I am testing a new wireless system and I configured the dhcp in  
>>> this way:
>>>
>>> subnet 10.0.200.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 {
>>>   range 10.0.200.10 10.0.201.254;
>>>
>>>   option broadcast-address 10.0.201.255;
>>>   option routers 10.0.200.1;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Well, mac and windows clients receive all 255.255.255.0 as netmask  
>>> and they "mysteriously" work "perfectly".
>>>
>>> Some linux client (slackware) refuse, correctly, such netmask.
>>>
>>> Sniffing packets revealed that clients receive 255.255.255.0.
>>
>> What happens if you specify a value for the netmask option ? Ie :
>> option netmask 255.255.254.0
>
> OK, Simon,
> the right syntax was:
> 	option subnet-mask 255.255.254.0
> In a hour I will be able to make a test.
> Antonio
>
>
>
>>
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>>
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