From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 00:48:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E2F3106566B for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:48:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (mail.1command.com [75.160.109.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF008FC1D for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:48:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (localhost.1command.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m250mA24070862; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:48:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id m250mAYw070861; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from hitme.hitometer.net (hitme.hitometer.net [75.160.109.235]) by webmail.1command.com (H.R. Communications Messaging System) with HTTP; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:48:10 -0800 Message-ID: <20080304164810.lu7t6dx0gkcs4c0c@webmail.1command.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:48:10 -0800 From: "Chris H." To: Lowell Gilbert References: <200803040619.m246Jbja018523@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20080304000320.msp5bfrytc0wsowg@webmail.1command.com> <1204625690.2126.181.camel@localhost> <20080304024831.fh4h1s3hggg444c0@webmail.1command.com> <20080304110042.GB84355@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080304033914.hbevsjq9gkc0o4os@webmail.1command.com> <44ablefys3.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <44ablefys3.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: H.R. Communications Internet Messaging System (HCIMS) 4.1 Professional (not for redistribution) / FreeBSD-5.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:48:24 -0000 Quoting Lowell Gilbert : > "Chris H." writes: > >> Yes, adding an entry in /etc/rc.conf that provides 254 IP's now >> reveals: >> lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 >> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 >> scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 >> >> as opposed to: 0xffffffff. > > Let's peel this issue back to the basics. > > This does *not* have 254 IP addresses on that interface. The > interface still has only one address on that interface. There are 254 > other addresses on the subnet, but only one of them belongs to your > machine. If you want the machine to answer to 127.0.0.2, you still > need to add it separately. Yes. Of course. In the same way one might add /any/ address to their "working pool" - eg; ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.224" which could/might be followed by ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255" etc... 127.0.0.0 - NET 127.0.0.255 - BCAST In spite of the way I announced/described all this, I'm actually familiar with the whole thing. My only interest was in determining why the netmask defaulted to 0xffffffff (255.255.255.255) on the lo0 interface in my 7-RC3 install. While all of my RELENG_6 servers happily provided 0xff000000. After much examination, and research, I could find no apparent reason. So decided to ask here. Thank you for taking the time to respond. --Chris H > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- panic: kernel trap (ignored)