Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Quoting Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
"Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yes, adding an entry in /etc/rc.conf that provides 254 IP's now
reveals:
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64
scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00
as opposed to: 0xffffffff.
Let's peel this issue back to the basics.
This does *not* have 254 IP addresses on that interface. The
interface still has only one address on that interface. There are 254
other addresses on the subnet, but only one of them belongs to your
machine. If you want the machine to answer to 127.0.0.2, you still
need to add it separately.
Yes. Of course. In the same way one might add /any/ address to their
"working pool" - eg;
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.224"
which could/might be followed by
ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255"
etc...
127.0.0.0 - NET
127.0.0.255 - BCAST
<strike>127.0.0.255 - BCAST</strike>
127.0.0.31 - BCAST
In spite of the way I announced/described all this,
I'm actually familiar with the whole thing.
Then why did you claim 255 addresses on a /27 in
your post.
My only
interest was in determining why the netmask defaulted
to 0xffffffff (255.255.255.255) on the lo0 interface
in my 7-RC3 install. While all of my RELENG_6 servers
happily provided 0xff000000. After much examination,
and research, I could find no apparent reason. So
decided to ask here.
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
--Chris H
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