[SLUG] Networking

[Phil Kershaw]

Paul,

The subnetmask defines the class of network and what range of ip's are
available for use. The NETMASK="255.255.255.0" is setting the subnetmask to
255.255.255.0

On a small home system it doesn't really matter what it is as long as all
machines have the same.

Phil


> DEVICE="eth0"
> BOOTPROTO="static"
> IPADDR="192.168.0.1"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
> ONBOOT="yes"
>
> So should this file contain a line like:
>
> SUBNETMASK="*"
>
> Details of what the subnetmask should be would be nice. :)
>