ifconfig with non-standard netmask doesn't get applied

[Robert Gordon]

Good point.
It works when I do it from the command line. And trying other settings 
(IP and mask) from the command line continue to work too.

I tried repeating the ifconfig command in rc.sysinit so it runs twice, 
in case it was an initialization issue, but that didn't help.

The problem occurs with both class C and class B addresses using smaller 
subnet masks.

Looks like I need to look elsewhere.

Rob

Jason Schoon wrote:

> What happens if once the system is up and running, you manually run 
> "ifconfig eth0 137.158.27.158 <http://137.158.27.158> netmask 
> 255.255.254.0 <http://255.255.254.0>"?  If that misbehaves again once 
> the system is up, I would look into the parsing used by ifconfig.  If it 
> works, I would say look elsewhere.
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