From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 13 12:32:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C72037B406 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 12:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 64883 invoked from network); 13 May 2002 19:31:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.1.123) by 0 with SMTP; 13 May 2002 19:31:58 -0000 Message-ID: <3CE014AB.6070209@tenebras.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 12:31:55 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio Reply-To: kudzu@tenebras.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Faulhaber Cc: "Mike M." , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.6-PRERELASE fxp alias woes References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020513142059.03741410@127.0.0.1> <20020513192324.GA14323@peitho.fxp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Faulhaber wrote: > Proper alias netmasks are now enforced. See the ifconfig(8) > man page for the proper format: > > alias Establish an additional network address for this interface. This > is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes > to accept packets addressed to the old interface. If the address > is on the same subnet as the first network address for this > interface, a netmask of 0xffffffff has to be specified. > Unfortunate language, though. It would be better, I suggest, if we followed something like the IETF guidelines on the use of key words such as MAY, MUST, SHALL, etc. Alias addresses on the same subnet as the primary network address for the interface MUST use a netmask of 0xffffffff (255.255.255.255) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message