Lexi

we can note this change in RELNOTES for 15.0-RELEASE for people to update their scripts. i don't expect this change will be MFC'd (nor should it). the number of people...

added an UPDATING entry to the PR.

> As Jessica pointed out on the mailing list the current code incorrectly calculates a non contiguous netmask. can you show an example of a non-contiguous netmask configured on a...

also, let me add that if FreeBSD does still support non-contiguous netmasks in some way, the correct fix for that is to remove support for non-contiguous netmasks, which have been...

> Something (my best guess would be the netlink rewrites) has broken this has it "broken" this or has it *fixed* this by not allowing non-contiguous netmasks? like i said...

> Silently doing something different than what the user asked to be done is "broken!" that's a fair point but not directly related to this PR - i'd be happy...

what IGPs can carry non-contiguous netmasks? what OSs can configure non-contiguous netmasks on an interface address? (FreeBSD cannot, as we already established.) what practical purpose is there to configure a...

> I have another question: what are you using on FreeBSD to test this? nothing; as far as i'm aware, FreeBSD as a client has no support for PREF64. i'm...

whoops - i thought i'd added a Makefile.package entry but it's easy to forget that, i'll update this one. that would be a nice thing for CI to check, if...

unfortunately local testing turned up an issue with this which is that service(8) requires bsdconfig at least for enable/disable: ``` # service uuidd enable .: cannot open /usr/share/bsdconfig/common.subr: No such...