On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Matt Churchyard wrote:
Just been helping someone on the forums who appears to have configured their network interface incorrectly. It looks like they've assigned 250.250.250.0 as the netmask. I've tried assigning this netmask on a 10.1 machine and ifconfig happily accepts it.
As a tangent to that question, ifconfig(8) and the rc.conf settings do accept CIDR notation, which is both shorter and clearer than a dotted quad IP address and a separate netmask:
ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.1/24 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
