ifconfig misreporting

From: ryan.worthington@westam.com
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 13:08:33 EDT

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Good morning gentlemen,

I've just been checking the interfaces on an Ultra 10 I've just taken over,
and I noticed that every single one of the interfaces' netmask (except the
local) was reported as ffffff0 by ifconfig, however, in /etc/netmasks they
are all configured at 255.255.255.240

Is ifconfig misreporting, or am I reading the output incorrectly?

Here is what I get from ifconfig

lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.2 netmask fffff000 broadcast 172.17.15.255
        ether 8:0:20:b9:68:a8
qfe1: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 207.235.33.178 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 207.235.33.191
        ether 8:0:20:b9:68:a8
qfe2: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 209.99.30.100 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 209.99.30.111
        ether 8:0:20:b9:68:a8
qfe3: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 64.9.162.17 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 64.9.162.31
        ether 8:0:20:b9:68:a8
qfe4: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 64.9.162.33 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 64.9.162.47
        ether 8:0:20:b9:68:a8
qfe5: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 64.9.162.49 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 64.9.162.63
        ether 8:0:20:b9:68:a8
qfe6: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 64.9.162.65 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 64.9.162.79
        ether 8:0:20:b9:68:a8
qfe7: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 64.9.162.81 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 64.9.162.95
        ether 8:0:20:b9:68:a8

and here is what's in /etc/netmasks

64.9.162.0 255.255.255.240
64.9.162.16 255.255.255.240
64.9.162.32 255.255.255.240
64.9.162.48 255.255.255.240
64.9.162.64 255.255.255.240
64.9.162.80 255.255.255.240
64.9.162.96 255.255.255.240
172.17.0.0 255.255.240.0
209.99.30.96 255.255.255.240
207.235.33.176 255.255.255.240

Thank you for any help.

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Ryan Worthington
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