Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:38:23 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net>, Randall Stewart <rrs@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r190775 - head/sbin/route Message-ID: <20090407073823.GA13564@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904061840550.18619@fledge.watson.org> References: <200904061427.n36ERTVF074015@svn.freebsd.org> <1239030459.1946.4.camel@localhost> <5EEC0668-D1C4-45E8-AFC1-959AE3E8715E@lakerest.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904061840550.18619@fledge.watson.org>
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--J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2009-Apr-06 18:45:29 +0100, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > Perhaps I'm sort of old-fashioned, but I would generally expect: > > (1) No netmask specified -- use class to determine netmask > (2) netmask specified using -net 192.168/20 -- use /20 > (3) netmask specified using -netmask -- use the -netmask argument. Likewise. I also feel that the newly committed behaviour breaks POLA and doesn't match the behaviour of Linux,=20 A possible mechanism to handle CIDR routing is to have /etc/netmasks ala Solaris which specifies netmask sizes for different subnets. --=20 Peter Jeremy --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknbAu8ACgkQ/opHv/APuIf1DQCfR3zjj0XA8v79sL5DkwKt89K9 UvwAn3RgFhXzrIctk1i0TIcmzNjAWl/f =n/np -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--
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