On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 01:27:50PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Gregor Best <g...@unobtanium.de> [2016-05-01 19:22]: > > /etc/hostname.if supports IPv4 addresses with a CIDR prefix length: > > > > inet 10.0.0.1/16 > > > > which is not documented in hostname.if(5). The attached patch fixes > > that. I'm not sure whether describing '/prefixlen' before 'netmask' is a > > good idea, but it matches the order things have to be specified in and > > 'netmask' is the next paragraph after '/prefixlen' > > technically, hostname.if doesn't support ip/len notation. It is a > notation that the hostname parser doesn't grok and just passes on to > ifconfig. That is the modus operandi for almost everything actually - > except the classic "inet [addr] [mask] [bcast]" notation. This "dual" > approach, parsing by netstart vs just passing on to ifconfig, is the > source of this slightly confusing behaviour. >
yep. and someone went to the trouble of trying to make that all nice and clear, at the top of hostname.if(5). so i don;t see that anything needs to be done, doc-fix-wise. jmc
