On 2009/08/14 08:20, Nice Daemon wrote:
quoted text > Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>wrote:
>
> > On 2009-08-13, Nice Daemon <nicedaemon@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > inet xx.yyy.253.225 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 (this is
> > > carp IP in upstream VLAN, AFTER your hint)
> >
> > that's definitely wrong, you ended up setting your broadcast address to
> > 255.255.255.255 instead of setting the netmask.
> >
> > most likely you got bitten by the different syntax between ifconfig(8)
> > and hostname.if(5). I use the format "inet 11.22.33.44/28" in hostname.if
> > which I find much easier to work with.
> >
>
> okay, now I've tried to use the CIDR notation (which I usually use anyways,
> but not in this case, mainly due to historical reasons or because I never
> did that on any OS before).
>
> This now works and gives me the correct netmask of 255.255.255.240 (set
> before) or /28.
>
> However, the man page of hostname.if(5) states:
>
> STATIC ADDRESS CONFIGURATION
> The following three hostname.* formats are valid for configuring
> network
> interfaces with static addresses:
>
> Regular IPv4 network setup:
>
> inet [alias] addr netmask broadcast_addr options
> dest dest_addr
>
> So,
>
> inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE
>
> should be equal to
>
> inet 192.168.1.1/24 NONE
if you're using that format, you need to have it like I wrote,
without "NONE". just "inet 192.168.1.1/24".
quoted text > However, this was exactly NOT the case in my setup. Here, stating
> 255.255.255.255 on the 'netmask' value led to a /8 (or 0xff000000) address
> and broadcast set to 255.255.255.255, for whatever reason.
I think you'll need to show the exact line if you want to find
out why. (Or add some "set -x" to the netstart shell script and
watch how it runs..)
