[CentOS] netmask set with ifconfig doesn't hold

Thu Mar 14 15:58:16 UTC 2019
Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>

On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 15:42 +0000, KM via CentOS wrote:
>  I should have mentioned that I tried nmtui but found no settings for
> a netmask anywhere.  like I said …. dummy.

It's part of the IP address - so you put something like 

   192.168.0.1/24

for a 255.255.255.0 subnet.  It's called a CIDR address.

P.