On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Nice Daemon<[email protected]> wrote: ... > No, I'm certainly not stupid. I'm just *re*acting (to remind you; in case > you are actually able to *read*, you should already know it). People > (Henning, Theo) started to bark at me when I asked for help. They didn't > provide any help, they just needed someone to throw their words at.
They told you your config was wrong and pointed at what you did provide (ifconfig output) to show that. I made the mistake of checking with you off-list and helping you find what was wrong. Answer: your hostname.carp0 was wrong. It didn't match any of the templates or examples in the hostname.if(5) manpage. So, your assertion that your config was correct was based on an incorrect belief. > I don't think that this is normal behaviour, and I don't think that people > appreciate it being treated like this. I don't appreciate helping someone only to have them *continue* to rant and fail to describe for the archive what the problem and solution were (so much for looking out for other random users). Saying "huh, I guess I misread that manpage" would be nice. Some would apologize, and I think the better of them for it. Instead, you'll not even mention that you got your answer but rather piss in the teapot and have the gall to complain about other people's attitudes. (For those wondering: if you leave off the 'inet' or 'inet6' prefix, the parsing of a hostname.if(5) line is probably not what you expect. Also, if you want to supply options you must either give *both* a netmask and broadcast field (possibly "NONE") or neither.) > But don't think that people being insulted will actually give donations to > you or pay money to buy a CD/DVD set. They will (at max) use your software > and never return anything back to you (the project) because they know, out > of their own memories, because they read the list or because they read about > this on other places, that you will insult them. I would rather work with Theo for the rest of my life then deal with another email from you. He's honest. Philip Guenther
