Hi! On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:37:17PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > > For a set of IPs in the same subnet on the same interface, wouldn't the > > primary IP be the one with the proper netmask, and all IPs with netmasks > > of /32 be secondary? > > That's historic. :-) Old versions of FreeBSD indeed > required the netmask of the "aliases" to be /32 in that > case. But it's no longer the case.
WTF? Er, sorry, what did I miss? This is complete news to me and I'm really surprised. I had that same thought as Freddie had when I read this thread, but did not find the time to answer until today. Was there a HEADS UP or something? > > In that situation, wouldn't deleting the primary IP > > cause connection issues for the rest of the IPs? > > No. I can delete _any_ of the above IP addresses, and the > others would still work perfectly fine. I already did > things like that (on a different machine). _If_ they all share the same netmask when they are part of the same prefix. As much as I appreciate the change, this is a big POLA violation. I considered the "netmask 0xffffffff" cast in concrete until now. Thanks for clarifying. Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Vorholzstr. 25 * 76137 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
