Van: Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]>
Datum: woensdag, 12 juni 2024 12:39
Aan: Ronald Klop <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: 14.1-R rc.conf/ifconfig netmask issue was really hard to figure
out
Ronald Klop writes:
> What do you thing about defaulting to /32 on a missing netmask?
> An interface with 1 IP address without any information about the network. All
traffic can go to the gateway.
I dont think that will work ?
The gateway will not be inside any of the attached networks, so you have no
route to it ?
Poul-Henning
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Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Ai. Of course. Typed quicker than I was thinking. :-)
Well. Then it is maybe best to just error out on boot with a misconfigured
network. Or revert back to the pre-14.1 behavior because of POLA.
I'll leave it up to you and will make sure I configure my interfaces with a
netmask.
Regards,
Ronald.
