From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jul 17 4:22:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost2.dircon.co.uk (mailhost2.dircon.co.uk [194.112.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8E637B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 04:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk) Received: from localhost.ch.dircon.net (desk99.ch.dircon.net [195.157.3.99]) by mailhost2.dircon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08522; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:22:30 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200107171122.MAA08522@mailhost2.dircon.co.uk> From: "Mark Blackman" To: Mark Blackman , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/28833: ifconfig if0 netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.0 doesn't change the netmask In-Reply-To: Message from Ruslan Ermilov of "Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:12:22 +0300." <20010717141222.B82317@sunbay.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:22:39 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ok. I'll wait for updates. would you expect that 'ifconfig if0 netmask 255.255.255.0' would work (i.e. no explicit address/inet option). Thanks, - Mark > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:19:56AM +0100, Mark Blackman wrote: > > > > nope, would you like me to try this patch? > > > > does this mean one could do netmask changes without losing > > the default route (unless the default route was outside the netmask)? > > > Yes, it _changes_ the address of an interface, as opposed to "delete > old and add new" approach. Unfortunately, I've just figured out that > the patch breaks configuration of P2P interfaces. I will see if I > can fix this. > > > Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, > ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, > ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, > +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine > > http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message