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| author | bdrewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-10-05 23:32:58 +0000 |
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| committer | bdrewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-10-05 23:32:58 +0000 |
| commit | 65df434e1fd5f97e93c05bd6ff5e143bf4983414 (patch) | |
| tree | 85173ed36d81183aafe5de930e480a0d0409c264 /share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 | |
| parent | 42bcc4fbacfc5d680c32bd2223dd7cead4e7a560 (diff) | |
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MFC r271424:
- Add $netif_ipexpand_max to specify the upper limit for the number of
addresses generated by an address range specification. The default value
is 2048. This can be increased by setting $netif_ipexpand_max in rc.conf.
PR: 186841
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5/rc.conf.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 index ce1230e..d068628 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 @@ -1159,6 +1159,19 @@ or .Li inet6 2001:db8:1-f::1/64 . This notation allows address and prefix length part only, not the other address modifiers. +Note that the maximum number of the generated addresses from a range +specification is limited to an integer value specified in +.Va netif_ipexpand_max +in +.Xr rc.conf 5 +because a small typo can unexpectedly generate a large number of addresses. +The default value is +.Li 2048 . +It can be increased by adding the following line into +.Xr rc.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal +netif_ipexpand_max="4096" +.Ed .Pp In the case of .Li 192.0.2.5-23/24 , |
