Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:00:58 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: imp@bsdimp.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, boogie@lazybytes.org Subject: Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format Message-ID: <4da0123a.X/iA9ZZt1x2Me/Kg%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <BD12DE29-B333-4560-8408-E64CFAAD810A@bsdimp.com> References: <4D9EFAC6.4020906@lazybytes.org> <7EA5889E-77EF-4BAE-9655-C33692A75602@bsdimp.com> <4D9F2C88.4010205@lazybytes.org> <20110408155520.GA40792@cheddar.urgle.com> <BD12DE29-B333-4560-8408-E64CFAAD810A@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > Non-contigous netmasks are legal in IPv4 ... > > They have become illegal in the fullness of time. and/or the fullness of the address space, I suspect :) Even if they were legal, I have a hard time imagining a practical use case.
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