Bug 770401 - A GUI warning should appear when attempting to configure "single host mask" (255.255.255.255) subnet mask
Summary: A GUI warning should appear when attempting to configure "single host mask" (...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: oVirt
Classification: Retired
Component: ovirt-engine-webadmin
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
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Assignee: Einav Cohen
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-26 10:21 UTC by zvi
Modified: 2012-12-16 06:57 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-12-16 06:57:20 UTC
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Description zvi 2011-12-26 10:21:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
When configuring an host's 
1 NIC ,
2 VLAN or
3 BOND 
subnet mask to 255.255.255.255 a warning should appear 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
153.1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a subnet mask with 255.255.255.255 value
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
The subnet is created 

Expected results:
A "single host subnet mask" warning before approving a /32 subnet mask

Additional info:
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1427419
Comment 2 zvi 2011-12-26 12:34:19 UTC 
it doesn't fail, but success and the actual interface is configured with single host mask (255.255.255.255) subnet
i think that we should worn the user in the GUI because it is not a trivial or common configuration setting.
Comment 4 Itamar Heim 2012-12-16 06:57:20 UTC 
Closing old bugs. If this issue is still relevant/important in current version, please re-open the bug.
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