Subject: Re: Wierd route on NetBSD 2.1
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/26/2006 12:41:02
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:10:56AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:18:23PM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
> > I didn't realize this was legal in the ip addressing standard,
> > however, if nothing else, it's a problem with 'netstat' 's inability
> > to represent the number, which is a netbsd problem:
> >
> > # netstat -rnf inet
> > 0.0.5&0xa050501    255.255.0.255      UGS         0       23      -  tlp0
>
> But it represents it fine... 0.0.5.0 with a mask (anded with)
> 0xa050501. I don't see any problem there.
>
> > and (to a lesser extent) 'route' 's reporting of a negative mask:
> > (I don't know a better way to report this, maybe /-8 would be better.
> > Maybe slash notation just doesn't work for non-contiguous masks)
>
> That's correct. Slash notation doesn't work for non-contiguous masks.
> Maybe "route show" shouldn't try that.

I've fixed "route" in -current (sbin/route/route.c 1.96).

	-is

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