Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/ifconfig

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 07 May 2008, David Young wrote:
> > What!?  If I specify [f000::baaa]/0 I expect it to either complain
> > "incompatible address and length (some non-zero bits appear beyond the
> > specified length)" or treat it like [::]/0 (ignoring all bits beyond
> > the specified length).  Treating it like [f000::baaa]/128 would be very
> > surprising to me.
> 
> AFAICT, ifconfig has worked that way since 2.x or before.  I am trying
> very hard not to depart from the longstanding and, presumably, expected
> ifconfig(8) behavior.

OK, so I should treat it as an old bug, not blame you.  Thanks.

--apb (Alan Barrett)