From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 19 14:53:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA28538 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:53:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA28523 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:53:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA04467 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:53:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id XAA26589; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:42:28 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:42:28 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712192242.XAA26589@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <3.0.32.19971216193810.00b3b480@etinc.com> <199712172332.XAA08846@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: ifconfig reports bogus netmask X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Somers wrote: > I agree, and I'll implement the change unless someone has a good > reason not to..... any takers ? I think it's really best to just not display the netmask in the output of ifconfig iff IFF_POINTOPOINT is set. Routes to the remote end apart from the implied host route seem to be dangerous to me, and they break the current behaviour (i.e. could cause surprises for people who are used to how it's done now). It's not always that the IP address of the remote end is indeed identical with the remote network address. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)