Re: 14.1-R rc.conf/ifconfig netmask issue was really hard to figure out

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Poul-Henning Kamp"  writes:

> Defaulting to a /8 netmask for 192.168.x.y does not make *any* sense ever.

Well, not in the last 30 years or so, anyway.

Re: 14.1-R rc.conf/ifconfig netmask issue was really hard to figure out

[Ed Maste]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 14:08, Ed Maste  wrote:
>
> As for the path forward, what do folks think about changing the
> warning into an error in main in the near future (prior to 15.0)? That
> would provide about four years of releases that emit the warning,
> hopefully enough time for users to notice and update their
> configuration.

I opened a review in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45585 to turn it
into an error. I've intentionally made it a minimal change to avoid
conflicts on future MFCs; it could be cleaned up and simplified once
older branches pass EOL.