usb/149039: [uhso] Binding problem with uhso

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sun Aug 1 02:49:18 UTC 2010


> The following reply was made to PR usb/149039; it has been noted
> by GNATS.
>
> From: Fredrik Lindberg <fli at shapeshifter.se>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, pilzableiter at web.de
> Cc: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>
> Subject: Re: usb/149039: [uhso] Binding problem with uhso
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:00:07 +0200
>
>  I apparently missed some interface flags (that really doesn't make
>  sense for this device, it's configured with a /32 mask so broadcast
>  etc can only be to itself) that the network stack wants to work
>  properly.

Is a /32 mask even legal?  Unless there's a special case involved,
it ought to mean that there are no interfaces on the subnet other
than this one, thus this interface has no peer to communicate with
and might as well not exist.

Adding net@ in hopes someone there knows what should happen.


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