host all 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.128 password
matches all ip addresses of the form 192.168.1.x. If I change the mask to 255.255.255.255 it no longer matches all addresses. Although this fixes the problem, it seems strange to me that it works this way. Basically, if mask is something other than 255.255.255.255, you might as well put 0's in your id address. This doesnt seem to be how subnet masks normally work and it seems redundant to me.
Is there something I don't understand?
Thanks,
David
Reinhard Max wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 at 20:47, David M. Kaplan wrote:host all 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 ident sameuser
If you want this entry to match only the loopback device, the mask has
to be 255.255.255.255 instead of 0.0.0.0. A mask of 0.0.0.0 causes
*all* IP addresses to match this line.
cu
Reinhard
