On 2015-2-11, at 09:59, Matt Churchyard <matt.churchy...@userve.net> wrote: > Just been helping someone on the forums who appears to have configured their > network interface incorrectly. It looks like they've assigned 250.250.250.0 > as the netmask.
that's not invalid. The netmask is a mask and not a prefix like in IPv6. We could warn when people configure netmasks that are not contiguous prefixes (which is the usual practice), but such configurations need to remain allowed. Lars
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