2008/9/18 Cezary Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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); >
That was a rhetorical question. It makes little difference to me why I cant set a vhid to 0. I asked it to make a point about your previous comment on ambiguity. > > > 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. > Common sense? Please. There are many examples on these lists of people trying to accomplish crazier things then trying to lower there failover times to something less then 3 seconds. Look I appreciate you attempting to help and all, but if your going to be rude about it please dont bother. > -- > Cezary Morga > "Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you > wouldn't have in your home." (David Frost) or wouldnt have you in theirs...
