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From: Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com>
To: Sergey Vinogradov <boogie@lazybytes.org>
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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:55:11 +0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ifconfig(8) flag to display IPv4 netmasks in
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Sergey Vinogradov <boogie@lazybytes.org> writes:

> Hi,
> I've written a tiny-tiny patch, which adds the '-t' flag to
> ifconfig(8). It modifies the output to display IPv4 netmasks in dotted
> decimal notation:
[...]
> % ifconfig -t msk0
[...]
>         inet 10.10.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.10.0.255

Isn't netstat(8) a better place for such an option? domask() already
converts netmask to CIDR notation if possible, e.g. `netstat -ni'

   10.10.0.1/24
   10.10.0.1&0xff00ff00

Unfortunately, Network column is always truncated to 13 characters even
with -W flag while it can be up to 26 characters long with `-n' flag or
more with a symbolic network name.