Re: 14.1-R rc.conf/ifconfig netmask issue was really hard to figure out
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:06:23 UTC
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:36:35 +0000 > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > >> -------- >> Bjoern A. Zeeb writes: >> >>>> I had a machine with this line in /etc/rc.conf: >>>> >>>> ifconfig_bla0="192.168.87.11" >>>> >>>> I found out the hard way, that this defaults to /8 now. >>> >>> Did you track it down to a specific change? I.e. is this >>> ifconfig/netlink or the old kernel change from like two years(?) >>> ago? >>> >>> Do you have a time window when this broke as that'll help people to >>> bisect? >> >> I have no idea, sorry, I just freebsd-updated this one box... >> > > I just tried on 14.0-p6, same there: > > # ifconfig vtnet0 192.168.87.11 > ifconfig: WARNING: setting interface address without mask is > deprecated, default mask may not be correct. > > Interestingly, `ifconfig vtnet0 10.0.0.1` uses "/24" whereas > 192.168.87.11 uses "/8". > > This dates back to: > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=4bf44dd73bc0a No it pre-dates that chnage. It goes back to d8237b95552807e937fc389c7e2237679ef0c984 and related changes. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7