dhcpcd-discuss

Re: configure an arbitrary static ipv4/netmask with dhcpcd -S

Roy Marples

Thu May 19 20:51:36 2016

Hi Giorgio

On 19/05/2016 16:41, Giorgio wrote:
> I'm calling dhcpcd with the -S option to configure
> static ip's but I noticed that the configured netmask
> is not (always) honored:
> 
> # dhcpcd -d -S ip_address=172.1.2.3/21 br0:gdm
> dhcpcd-6.11.0 starting

...

> br0: probing address 172.1.2.3/16

A bug!

Fixed here:
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/025c74b42993bc3f

Thanks

Roy

References:
configure an arbitrary static ipv4/netmask with dhcpcd -SGiorgio
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