From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 16 07:36:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA02878 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 07:36:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA02862 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 07:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [204.141.95.138]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA04823 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:40:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971216103907.00a96580@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:39:08 -0500 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: dennis Subject: ifconfig reports bogus netmask Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there any chance of this getting fixed? Its been broken forever. I'm talking about PTP interfaces, where the routes are inherently host mask routes. ifconfig reports the natural mask or whatever you give it....and its rather confusing trying to explain to the woodchucks that its wrong. Dennis