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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:20:54 -0500
From:      Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] netstat(1) should print CIDR prefixes
Message-ID:  <45CE8B96.3050008@rcn.com>
In-Reply-To: <45CE4DC9.4050605@incunabulum.net>
References:  <45CE4DC9.4050605@incunabulum.net>

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Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a POLA violating 'let's move with the times' patch that gets rid 
> of the special treatment of classful IPv4 network prefixes in 'netstat 
> -rn' output. Comments please!

Since those 'classes' haven't meant anything for many years, and interpreting
them as 'special' is just plain wrong in almost all cases these days, I think
the change is the right thing to do.

Just my $0.02 worth...

Gary



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