From owner-freebsd-net Sun Nov 14 19:40:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out2.apple.com (mail-out2.apple.com [17.254.0.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2ABB14E22 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from justin@rhapture.apple.com) Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10374 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:38:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv3.apple.com (scv3.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (mailgate1.apple.com- SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:40:18 -0800 Received: from rhapture.apple.com (rhapture.apple.com [17.202.40.59]) by scv3.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00265 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:40:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from justin@localhost) by rhapture.apple.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA00768 for freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:40:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199911150340.TAA00768@rhapture.apple.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about netmask retrieval In-Reply-To: <199911142249.OAA00738@walker3.apple.com> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:40:17 -0800 From: "Justin C. Walker" Reply-To: justin@apple.com X-Mailer: by Apple MailViewer (2.105.dev) Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: Garrett Wollman > Date: 1999-11-14 19:35:43 -0800 > To: justin@apple.com > Subject: Question about netmask retrieval > Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > In-reply-to: <199911142249.OAA00738@walker3.apple.com> > Delivered-to: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > 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. Thanks; I'd forgotten about the brain damage. j -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Manager, CoreOS Networking | When crypto is outlawed, Apple Computer, Inc. | Only outlaws will have crypto. 2 Infinite Loop | Cupertino, CA 95014 | *-------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message