Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:27:38 +0000 From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> To: Matt Churchyard <matt.churchyard@userve.net> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Invalid subnet masks Message-ID: <DE405399-70FE-48A3-B550-992EDEB5C468@netapp.com> In-Reply-To: <7e069c1946454793b1c7e0be988877c4@SERVER.ad.usd-group.com> References: <7e069c1946454793b1c7e0be988877c4@SERVER.ad.usd-group.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2015-2-11, at 09:59, Matt Churchyard <matt.churchyard@userve.net> wrote: > Just been helping someone on the forums who appears to have configured their network interface incorrectly. It looks like they've assigned 250.250.250.0 as the netmask. that's not invalid. The netmask is a mask and not a prefix like in IPv6. We could warn when people configure netmasks that are not contiguous prefixes (which is the usual practice), but such configurations need to remain allowed. Lars [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBVNsgidZcnpRveo1xAQI9QQQAq5KZVt3emJNuXgPWOmysaY9Ls7//EIQl RRELprhpTPp3lAivrw+iD0VrNkuv6MkOOnWWq4ICWCKYVFKu9YwkHqkV6MmyoIrx LHVOqNpNizmcJIvwIvMefr8Iypz2MK6pl8puLVijmrFPnv94MRFqtaPYEpSHgv4x 6lLeqnO7zMQ= =LITf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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