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Subject: Re: kern/136257: Able to set an invalid netmask
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Synopsis: Able to set an invalid netmask

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State-Changed-By: brian
State-Changed-When: Fri Jul 3 05:38:27 UTC 2009
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Hi,

Can you be more specific as to why you think there's a problem?
FreeBSD supports non-contiguous netmasks - they don't have to
be composed of a series of binary ones followed by all binary
zeros.  When a netmask is non-contiguous, the system shows it
as a hex value rather than as a number of one-bits.

Unless you've got any specific problems with this, I'd like
to close this as a feature not a bug.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136257