Name: nt126004 Date: 10/02/2001


In some applicationss (like in my case a server brokering for peer-2-peer
communication) it is neccessary to determine if hosts are on the same subnet. To
determine this each client sends its host address and a netmask. Currently there
is no way to obtain netmask from within Java for a local network interface (like
with ifconfig or ipconfig).

In 1.4 this may be a method of class NetworkInterface.getNetmask() when the
interface is local.
(Review ID: 132948)
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