From: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Orion Poplawski <orion-CVdf0l11yl+B+jHODAdFcQ@public.gmane.org>,
initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Question about netmask format
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:08:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5449FB04.9030803@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20141014T001540-462-eS7Uydv5nfjZ+VzJOa5vwg@public.gmane.org>
On 14.10.2014 00:23, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> The dracut.cmdline man page lists:
>
> ip=<client-IP>:[<peer>]:<gateway-IP>:<netmask>:<client_hostname>:<interface>:
> {none|off|dhcp|on|any|dhcp6|auto6|ibft}[:[<dns1>][:<dns2>]]
>
> for explicit (static) network configuration. To my old mind, "netmask"
> refers to something of the form 255.X.X.X. However if I use that form with
> EL7 or Fedora 20, it fails with a message like:
>
> Bringing up interface eth0: Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than
> "10.8.0.0/255.255.255.0".
>
> It works if I give it a CIDR suffix. It appears that the netmask for used
> to work.
>
> - Orion
Hmm, in my case
"ip=192.168.50.101::192.168.50.1:255.255.255.0:iscsi-1:ens3:off"
results in:
ip addr flush dev ens3
ip addr add 192.168.50.101/255.255.255.0 brd + dev ens3
ip route replace default via 192.168.50.1 dev ens3
echo iscsi-1 > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
Which works on my machine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-24 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-13 22:23 Question about netmask format Orion Poplawski
[not found] ` <loom.20141014T001540-462-eS7Uydv5nfjZ+VzJOa5vwg@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-24 7:08 ` Harald Hoyer [this message]
[not found] ` <5449FB04.9030803-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-31 16:55 ` Orion Poplawski
[not found] ` <5453BEE5.3030908-CVdf0l11yl+B+jHODAdFcQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-03 11:28 ` Harald Hoyer
[not found] ` <545766EC.9020408-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-03 19:08 ` Orion Poplawski
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