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Subject: Re: svn commit: r190758 - head/sbin/route
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Randall Stewart ha scritto:
>> Are you sure that this is a good idea? Is this behavior
>> described/recommended somewhere? IMHO specifying network without
>> explicitly defined netmask is at least dangerous, if not wrong, in
>> present classless addressing time. Changing existing behavior breaks
>> POLA for some set of users, while benefits are not so obvious to me.
>> With previous code networks 10.0.0.0 and 11.0.0.0 were treated as /8,
>> but with this change it became /7 and /8 respectively.
> 
> Well it is how CIDR works.. and cidr's been around since before
> 1997. I can go dig up the RFC's that specifu this if you woudl like

I cannot see any references to CIDR notation without prefix length in 
RFC 4632.

-- 
Alex Dupre