On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Eugene Grosbein <eu...@grosbein.net> wrote:
> 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. > I'd suggest using CIDR notation and eliminating the old "netmask" al together. ifconfig ue0 inet 192.168.2.176/24 Aside form no longer using a form of addressing that had been obsolete for 20 years, quotation marks won't matter. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 _______________________________________________ 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"
