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> 
> >I recently set up a Sun workstation on a subnetted class C network
> >(255.255.255.240).  Routing would not work if set up manually
> >(route add local_eth my_interface 0, route add default my_router 1).
> >I had to run in.routed to get the Sun to correctly recognize the
> >local network (with the two route add commands above, the Sun would
> >send pings for its local ethernet interface to the router!).
> > 
> >Robert Craig,
> >cisco systems
> 
> Since we've begun using a nine-bit mask here (on a class B), Robert's
> message concerned me.  So, I tried moving one of our Suns to a stub LAN
> of our subnetted network.  In order to get the default route inserted
> automatically upon booting, I had to create a file named
> /etc/defaultrouter containing the ip address of a default gateway (if
> this file exists, rc.local adds a static default; otherwise it starts
> routed).  Since I wasn't running NIS, I also had to add the mask to
> /etc/netmask.  Upon rebooting it came up just fine with it's local
> network and the default gateway in its routing table.  The Sun was
> running SunOS 4.1.2.
> 
> -Jay 
> 
Yes, I also have had no problems with non-byte boundary
subnet masks on class B's.  The one I referred to in my
note was a class C.  

Robert.