Re: Heads-up: ifconfig address without a mask/width to become an error

2024-06-17 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 at 11:16, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > In case there is no EN, what is the process to add information about > issues like this to the release notes? Something like "known issues", > which those of us who read the release notes can stumble over and check? Great question

Re: Heads-up: ifconfig address without a mask/width to become an error

2024-06-17 Thread Michael Gmelin
> On 17. Jun 2024, at 20:34, Shawn Webb wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:54:29AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: >> It is currently possible to specify an IPv4 address without a >> netmask/width to ifconfig or in rc.conf, e.g.: >> >>ifconfig_igb0="192.168.0.2" >> >> phk recently discovered[

Re: Heads-up: ifconfig address without a mask/width to become an error

2024-06-17 Thread Shawn Webb
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:54:29AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > It is currently possible to specify an IPv4 address without a > netmask/width to ifconfig or in rc.conf, e.g.: > > ifconfig_igb0="192.168.0.2" > > phk recently discovered[1] that ifconfig chose a poor netmask/width > when none was sp

Re: Heads-up: ifconfig address without a mask/width to become an error

2024-06-17 Thread Michael Gmelin
On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:54:29 -0400 Ed Maste wrote: > It is currently possible to specify an IPv4 address without a > netmask/width to ifconfig or in rc.conf, e.g.: > > ifconfig_igb0="192.168.0.2" > > phk recently discovered[1] that ifconfig chose a poor netmask/width > when none was spec

Heads-up: ifconfig address without a mask/width to become an error

2024-06-17 Thread Ed Maste
It is currently possible to specify an IPv4 address without a netmask/width to ifconfig or in rc.conf, e.g.: ifconfig_igb0="192.168.0.2" phk recently discovered[1] that ifconfig chose a poor netmask/width when none was specified. This was not an intentional change in defaults but rather a bug