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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:34:27 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] netstat(1) should print CIDR prefixes
Message-ID:  <20070211003427.GA59292@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <45CE4DC9.4050605@incunabulum.net>
References:  <45CE4DC9.4050605@incunabulum.net>

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On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:57:13PM +0000 I heard the voice of
Bruce M Simpson, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> 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!

Please!

1.2.3/24 is *wrong* when you're referring to 1.2.3.0/24 and not
1.2.0.3/24.  Talking netstat out of giving me that wrong information
is a Good Thing(tm).


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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