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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: 14.1-R rc.conf/ifconfig netmask issue was really hard to figure
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CC: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>,
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> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
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> > Defaulting to a /8 netmask for 192.168.x.y does not make *any* sense ever.
> 
> Well, not in the last 30 years or so, anyway.

No, never ever did /8 make since on 192.*.*.*, that has always been
class C address space.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org