From owner-cvs-all Sun May 20 16:21:49 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C0237B422; Sun, 20 May 2001 16:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from billf@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4KNLkN92950; Sun, 20 May 2001 16:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf) Message-Id: <200105202321.f4KNLkN92950@freefall.freebsd.org> From: Bill Fumerola Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 16:21:46 -0700 (PDT) To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: ports/net/whatmask pkg-descr X-FreeBSD-CVS-Branch: HEAD Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG billf 2001/05/20 16:21:46 PDT Modified files: net/whatmask pkg-descr Log: remove bogus comment that "nobody knows why" wildcard notation exists. Netmask are contiguous bits, wildcard masks don't need to be. The former is accurate for defining subnets and the latter is useful for describing ranges for firewalls, route maps, or other such things. example: 10.0.10.0 is nntp1.domain.com, 10.0.11.0 is nntp2.local.com access-list 185 permit tcp any gt 1023 10.0.10.0 0.0.1.0 eq nntp Revision Changes Path 1.2 +1 -2 ports/net/whatmask/pkg-descr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message