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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--Apple-Mail=_E3FE2A56-2EEA-4271-91B2-3C73AE7383AB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --Apple-Mail=_E3FE2A56-2EEA-4271-91B2-3C73AE7383AB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBVNsgidZcnpRveo1xAQI9QQQAq5KZVt3emJNuXgPWOmysaY9Ls7//EIQl RRELprhpTPp3lAivrw+iD0VrNkuv6MkOOnWWq4ICWCKYVFKu9YwkHqkV6MmyoIrx LHVOqNpNizmcJIvwIvMefr8Iypz2MK6pl8puLVijmrFPnv94MRFqtaPYEpSHgv4x 6lLeqnO7zMQ= =LITf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_E3FE2A56-2EEA-4271-91B2-3C73AE7383AB--
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