ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sat Apr 9 08:11:46 UTC 2011


Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> > Non-contigous netmasks are legal in IPv4 ...
>
> They have become illegal in the fullness of time.

and/or the fullness of the address space, I suspect :)

Even if they were legal, I have a hard time imagining
a practical use case.


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