ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

Sergey Vinogradov boogie at lazybytes.org
Fri Apr 8 19:00:10 UTC 2011


08.04.2011 19:55, Mike Bristow пишет:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 07:40:56PM +0400, Sergey Vinogradov wrote:
>> On 08.04.2011 19:23, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:08 AM, Sergey Vinogradov wrote:
>>> If we really wanted to make it human readable, we'd output 10.2.3.4/24
>>
>> So, maybe, while following the POLA, we should add an option, as Daniel
>> mentioned above? To output the CIDR?
>
> Non-contigous netmasks are legal in IPv4.  What do you do if someone adds
> the CIDR flag but the netmask cannot be represented in CIDR notation?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

And boom goes the dynamite. Reverting to my first proposal about 
changing only netmask notation.

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wbr,
Boo


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