On 10.02.2016 04:51, Jeremy Boy wrote: > Hello list, > > please CC me in replies to this mail, since I am no subscriber to this list. > > For safety reasons, we enclose user input to shell commands in quotes. Until > today, the resulting command for ifconfig(8) looked like this: > >> ifconfig ue0 inet "192.168.2.176 netmask 255.255.255.0"
According to ifconfig(8) manual page, this syntax is wrong. > What exactly does ifconfig do? It seems to me that it reads the IP address > from the quoted string but truncates the netmask. Is this a bug in ifconfig > or intended behavior? The word "inet" is for "address_family". The next argument should be "address" and you supply "192.168.2.176 netmask 255.255.255.0" for "address". It seems, ifconfig passes this argument to inet_aton() function that parses IP address and ignores first space and the rest of string. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
