Subject: Re: strange appletalk behavior
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/15/1999 12:03:17
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:35:15AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > Looks to me like someone decided to break the route to 34060-34069 up
> 
> Who ? At the NetBSD side or the other ?

NetBSD or atalkd.

> > into pieces with "common high-order bits set" akin to w.x.y.z/bits for
> > IP addresses.  It's much easier to do mask-and-compare than to see if
> > something is "between" two values.
> > 
> > 	34060-34063 == 0x850c - 0x850f  mask 0xfffc
> > 	34064-34067 == 0x8510 - 0x8513  mask 0xfffc
> > 	34068-34069 == 0x8514 - 0x8515  mask 0xfffe

As I understand it, that's how our routing table works. It uses a binary
tre method, so needs this. :-)

> Ok, I can undertstand that. But then there's something brocken with routes.

True...

Take care,

Bill