Re: ifconfig v2

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <E6BB8D4F-8F00-4C8B-91C3-14F2779B2FE2%3am-software.com@localhost>,
Matt Thomas  <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>On Jun 11, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> 
>wrote:
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>>>>        inet 169.254.162.222 prefixlen 16
>>>>        inet6 fe80::226:2dff:fef3:c8c7%wm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>> 
>>> If you want to do that, please use
>> 
>>>   inet 169.253.162.222/16
>> 
>>> which is more standard notation (so-called "CIDR" notation) for IPv4.
>> 
>> Indeed, some programs accept it for v6 as well.  But - unless you also
>> propose to break noncontiguous netmasks completely - you have to be
>> prepared to report the mask as other than a width if it's
>> noncontiguous.
>
>Breaking noncontiguous netmasks sounds like a good idea to me.

+1 It is the @##%@@!@#~! non-contiguous masks that caused a lot of unneeded
complexity in the networking code; code that was actually never used in real
life.

christos