Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 04:27:24 -0700 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> To: Dmitry Demyanchuk <dd@skynet.lt> Cc: ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw2 bug? Message-ID: <20020723112724.GH55389@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <DLEHKBDBCBAOBMIAHCBEMEADCAAA.dd@skynet.lt> References: <20020723104850.GG55389@elvis.mu.org> <DLEHKBDBCBAOBMIAHCBEMEADCAAA.dd@skynet.lt>
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:07:29PM +0200, Dmitry Demyanchuk wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:46:06PM +0200, Dmitry Demyanchuk wrote:
>
> >> 2) im getting the following message:
> >> root@hydra:/usr/src/sys:> ipfw add 25 allow ip from 10.1.1.0/24{1,2} to
> any
> >> ipfw: bad width ``241''
> >> root@hydra:/usr/src/sys:>
>
> >what would you expect ipfw to do when asked to use 10.1.1.0/241 as a range?
>
> i would expect the same action of ipfw add 25 allow ip from { 10.1.1.1 or
> 10.1.1.2 } to any
modern networking disagrees. stuffing a 241 bit value into a 32 bit
netmask is hard. perhaps linux has accomplished that, though.
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