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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:55:20 +0100
From: Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
To: Sergey Vinogradov <boogie@lazybytes.org>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 07:40:56PM +0400, Sergey Vinogradov wrote:
> On 08.04.2011 19:23, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:08 AM, Sergey Vinogradov wrote:
> > If we really wanted to make it human readable, we'd output 10.2.3.4/24
>
> So, maybe, while following the POLA, we should add an option, as Daniel 
> mentioned above? To output the CIDR?

Non-contigous netmasks are legal in IPv4.  What do you do if someone adds
the CIDR flag but the netmask cannot be represented in CIDR notation?

Cheers,
Mike

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Mike Bristow                                          mike@urgle.com