On Friday 28 February 2003 11:47, Erik S. Johansen wrote: > I got a colocated box on which I ditched redhat and installed gentoo (thank > god the preinstalled redhat had a GB swap, just enough to do a gentoo > install and switch ;). It's my 6th gentoo box so far. and I just now > noticed a little oddity in the network init scripts related to aliases: > > When adding an alias to ethX, the primary IPs netmask is not inherited. My > primary ip has a /23 mask, whereas the aliased ip gets a /24 mask. This > doesn't really affect me, but it appears to be a bug that maybe could be > fixed before it does affect someone. Or is this for some reason > intentional?
In general ip aliases are independant of the "main" IP address. As such they get a default netmask if they are not specified. The IP appears to be a C-class address and as such it gets a /24 netmask. The script could be so smart to enumerate all ip's on the computer and use that to get a better default netmask, but for most purposes such a script is not necessary. It should be possible to provide the netmask though, if not that is a BUG Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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