USRobotics NETServer/8 - Manual (Page 141)

Administrative Tools 9-7
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