The second line contains the following information:

Broadcast

The Ethernet broadcast address.

Dest

Displays the IP address of the device on the

 

other end of a point-to-point connection.

Inet

The interface’s IP address (NETServer em-

 

ploys its LAN port IP address for most

 

connections).

IPXframe

The IPX frame type or protocol.

IPXnet

The IPX network address of the frame type

MTU

The maximum transmission unit of the

 

interface.

Netmask

The IP subnet mask the interface is currently

 

using.

When you issue the command, what you see might look some- thing like this:

net0: flags=1016[IP_UP,IPX_UP,BROADCAST]

 

inet 192.77.206.57

netmask ffffff00

broadcast 192.77.206.255

ipxnet 0AE31E03

ipxframe ETHERNET_802.3 mtu 1500

 

 

 

Changing An Active Interface

To change an active interface, use the following command:

ifconfig <interface> <option> <new setting>

<interface> can be Net0, ptp1, ptp2 etc. However, the point-to- point connections must be established in order to be configurable.

For example, to change the Netmask setting of an established connection on S1 (point-to-point1) as it is being used for a hardwired connection, you would use the following command:

ifconfig ptp1 netmask 255.255.255.0

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