lower bound of prefixlength in host subnet ?

Flynn Marquardt flynn at flynnux.de
Fri Feb 6 21:53:36 CET 2015


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Am 06.02.2015 um 21:36 schrieb Guus Sliepen:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:01:21PM +0100, Flynn Marquardt wrote:
>
>> Analyzing a routing problem in a tinc net I found, that a declaration of
>> a class-A subnet (x.0.0.0/8) in a host configuration file is ignored,
e.g.
>>
>> Subnet = x.0.0.0/8
> [...]
>> Splitting the subnet in two /9 subnets helps:
>>
>> Subnet = x.0.0.0/9
>> Subnet = x.128.0.0/9
>>
>> All tests are done with tinc version 1.0.13.
>
> Could it be that the Subnet declaration was on the last line of the
> file? There is a bug in 1.0.13 (fixed in 1.0.14) that causes it to
> ignore the last line of a config file if it doesn't end with a newline
> character. You might have fixed it when you replaced it with two /9
> Subnets. If so, try changing it back to one /8 again.
I also thought on this potential source of problem (other daemons do
often have this problem too)
and already moved the line up - it did not help ...

Flynn

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