On 20.9.2019. 13:12, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019-09-20, Hrvoje Popovski <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> if i have "alias" directive in hostname.if with dot-notation netmask and >> networks are in 10/8 or 172.16/12 it seems i'm getting classless /8 or >> /16 networks ... > > hostname.if(5) format is weird and a bit annoying, the word "netmask" > is added to the ifconfig command for "inet alias" but not for bare > "alias" which is passed directly to ifconfig and results in it using the > standard netmask for the class of address holding the network. > >> but if i have "inet alias" or "alias" with cidr notation netmaks in >> hostname.if everything seems fine and classful :) > > that's passed as a single argument to ifconfig which treats it as you'd > expect. > >> i'm not sure if this is intentional or not so i'm reporting it here on >> misc@ > > mostly intentional I think, still annoying though! > >
Thank you for info... yes, little annoying but it's fine :)
