Invalid subnet masks

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 05:49:35PM +0000 I heard the voice of
Matt Churchyard, and lo! it spake thus:
> > On 11 Feb 2015, at 17:38, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> > ifconfig em0 inet 192.168.1.1/24
> 
> Yeah I've been using that format in rc.conf for years. Quicker to
> type and looks tidy.

Ditto.  Though in the grand tradition of being given the inch and
lusting after the mile, it makes me grumpy seeing the dotted-quad
netmask in 'ifconfig' output, making me have to work to see if the
match and back-convert to add things.   8-}


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