Never Ask Questions On A Friday Afternoon

[beno]

Bill Marquette wrote:
> Loads here, your ISP must be blocking it.  Here's the subect lines
> from that thread and the authors for you to Google - should be able to
> find this thread on any number of mailing list archive sites.
>
>  1. 2006-05-26 Re: Recursive macro expansion problems
> openbsd-p Daniel Hartmeier
>  2. 2006-05-26 Re: Recursive macro expansion problems
> openbsd-p Siju George
>  3. 2006-05-24 Re: Recursive macro expansion problems
> openbsd-p andrew fresh
>  4. 2006-05-23 Re: Recursive macro expansion problems
> openbsd-p Daniel Hartmeier
>  5. 2006-05-23 Recursive macro expansion problems
> openbsd-p andrew fresh
That helped a lot. Strange little trick...glad it works! But unless I 
(again) missed something, that still doesn't address how to deal with 
the CIDR/netmask problem:

directv_ip_addresses="69.19.0.0/17"

where (apparently) the parser doesn't like that "/". I tried escaping it

directv_ip_addresses="69.19.0.0\/17"

but that didn't work either. It would be great if we could do something 
like this:

directv_ip_addresses="69.19.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0"

or whatever, but no go. So, what to do? Again, the fact that this is a 
*known problem* that *hasn't* been fixed gives every indication that 
there's a workaround :) Max Laier wrote this last week:

That's a well-known problem in the pfctl-parser.  Patches have been 
proposed but never made it to the tree - afaik.  Look in the archives of 
this and the original ML for reasons and detailed discussion.

Unfortunately, googling my best I couldn't find anything in either list on the subject.
TIA,
beno