-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 March 2003 18:11, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > 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
I'd assume in most cases they live on the same subnet though. Well, at least on *my* boxes that's the most common setup ;) > 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 Not mentioned in the samples, but could be possible, I didn't bother to go through the scripts as it don't affect me either way. I guess an approach would be to allow a mask to be specified, and if it isn't then fallback to whatever netmask the primary IP on the relevant nic has. Or, alternatively, ignore it until it becomes a problem and rather fix emerge's dependancy on non-existant python threads (new problem, sigh ;) - --Erik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+YOMjds9m9uhAobARAvrPAJ9O4i2QFzNN1EUK3bPzT6gLnS+/YwCcDsc2 F+OP9I6vQG7TWJfe9HWC1rQ= =w7d7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
