Dnia czwartek, 18 wrze6nia 2008, napisa3e6: > I understand the concept of an 8 bit integer. What I meant by > ambiguous is the acceptable ranges that are being used, assuming > vhid's are an 8-bit integer as well, although thats not explicitly > stated it sure looks like one, why isnt 0 acceptable?
The ifconfig(8) manpage states: vhid n If the driver is a carp(4) pseudo-device, set the virtual host ID to n. Acceptable values are 1 to 255. And in the ifconfig.c you have: vhid = strtonum(val, 1, 255, &errmsg); > Ok then if this is true, then can anyone tell me what else would > prevent me from assigning 0 to the advbase. Common sense? You can set advbase to 0 and ifconfig won't complain about it, but it seems that somewhere between the lines ifconfig simply ignores such value and uses default or previously set. I haven't managed to find what it actually does in such situation, but I'm no C programmer. -- Cezary Morga "Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home." (David Frost)
