ifconfig bad address

[rdy2]

I am getting a bad address error

# ifconfig wl0.1 192.168.51.1/24
ifconfig: bad address '192.168.51.1/24'

Is there a limitation as to what the address can be, related to the router IP address/netmask, which is 192.168.50.1 with 255.255.255.0 ?

Just in case wondering what I am doing, I am trying to test this

ifconfig wl0.1 192.168.51.1/24

###/jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add

interface=wl0.1
dhcp-range=wl0.1,192.168.51.2,192.168.51.254,255.255.255.0,86400s
dhcp-option=wl0.1,3,192.168.50.1
dhcp-option=wl0.1,15,athome
dhcp-option=wl0.1,252,"\n"

 

[ColinTaylor]

I am getting a bad address error

# ifconfig wl0.1 192.168.51.1/24
ifconfig: bad address '192.168.51.1/24'

That is syntactically incorrect. The correct format is:

ifconfig wl0.1 192.168.51.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

 

[rdy2]

That is syntactically incorrect. The correct format is:

ifconfig wl0.1 192.168.51.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

That did it!. Odd that the incorrect format is all over (or so it looks to me)

Thank you

 

[ColinTaylor]

That did it!. Odd that the incorrect format is all over (or so it looks to me)

I think the format you used is only acceptable on more recent Linux kernels.