Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:59:39 +0000 From: Matt Churchyard <matt.churchyard@userve.net> To: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Invalid subnet masks Message-ID: <7e069c1946454793b1c7e0be988877c4@SERVER.ad.usd-group.com>
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Hello, Just been helping someone on the forums who appears to have configured thei= r network interface incorrectly. It looks like they've assigned 250.250.250= .0 as the netmask. I've tried assigning this netmask on a 10.1 machine and ifconfig happily ac= cepts it. Is there any reason why FreeBSD accepts this value as a netmask? I'm fairly= well versed in IPv4, although not a real expert, but I see no reason why s= uch a mask would be used. Testing on my Win8.1 workstation, it gets rejected telling me the mask must= be contiguous (i.e. all 1's then 0's), as I would expect. Regards, Matt Churchyard
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