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Date:      Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:43:16 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Sergey Vinogradov <boogie@lazybytes.org>
Subject:   Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format
Message-ID:  <BD12DE29-B333-4560-8408-E64CFAAD810A@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110408155520.GA40792@cheddar.urgle.com>
References:  <4D9EFAC6.4020906@lazybytes.org> <7EA5889E-77EF-4BAE-9655-C33692A75602@bsdimp.com> <4D9F2C88.4010205@lazybytes.org> <20110408155520.GA40792@cheddar.urgle.com>

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On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Mike Bristow wrote:

> 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?

They have become illegal in the fullness of time.

Warner




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