From owner-freebsd-net Sun Nov 14 19:35:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3EFE14DFF for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:35:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA04148; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:35:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:35:23 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199911150335.WAA04148@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: justin@apple.com Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Question about netmask retrieval In-Reply-To: <199911142249.OAA00738@walker3.apple.com> References: <199911142249.OAA00738@walker3.apple.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Bug? Feature? I know there are alternative ways to do this, but > I'm curious about the reason for this behavior. I'd call it a misbug. It's probably a bug, but anything that stops people from using the dain-bramaged old interface is a feature. Use sysctl or PF_ROUTE, as appropriate. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message