From: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Cc: "stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com" <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"vadim4j@gmail.com" <vadim4j@gmail.com>,
"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Subject: Re: ip addr add command generates error
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:13:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5510AC1A.7050507@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C5551D9AAB213A418B7FD5E4A6F30A0789291C3A@ORSMSX108.amr.corp.intel.com>
On 3/23/15, 3:43 PM, Rose, Gregory V wrote:
> The 'ip addr add' command used to use the following syntax:
>
> # ip addr add 10.0.0.2/24 brd 10.0.0.255 dev <eth>
>
> However, attempts to use that same command syntax with the current iproute2 tip gives the following error:
>
> Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than "20.0.0.2/24"
>
> This seems like a bug. The commit that introduces the issue is f3a2ddc124e09d3990b836e322ed39c76c35546e by Vadim Kochan. Reverting this commit fixes the problem.
>
> Is this change deliberate? It would break a lot of scripts if so.
>
looked like an unintended change. This was reported a few days back and
I hit this too in another context and a patch
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/451210/ is in the queue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-24 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-23 22:43 ip addr add command generates error Rose, Gregory V
2015-03-24 0:13 ` roopa [this message]
2015-03-24 0:33 ` Rose, Gregory V
2015-03-24 8:09 ` Vadim Kochan
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