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| author | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-09-11 12:30:29 +0000 |
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| committer | hrs <hrs@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-09-11 12:30:29 +0000 |
| commit | 9e4c2e60325e025e2d03da9eeecd353a4dba10b7 (patch) | |
| tree | df97ed79b52bb303c1dbe97b46b064bd82e7aa7e /share | |
| parent | 0808eece71149096aacff5958700040c4c743552 (diff) | |
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- 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.
- Fix warning messages when an address range spec exceeds the upper limit.
PR: 186841
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -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 669e773..47d9ef8 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 @@ -1199,6 +1199,19 @@ 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 , |
