cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml

[Ceri Davies]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:53:54PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> DB> >   Modified files:
> DB> >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml 
> DB> >   Log:
> DB> >   A class C network for 192.168.0.0/24 includes the address
> DB> >   range 192.168.0.0-192.168.0.255, not 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255
> DB> >   
> DB> >   Submitted by:   Tom Van Looy <tom at ctors.net>
> DB> >   
> DB> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> DB> >   1.338     +1 -1      doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml
> DB> > 
> DB> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml.diff?&r1=1.337&r2=1.338&f=h
> DB> > 
> DB> 
> DB> In an ideal world, all references to Class [ABC] networks would
> DB> disappear from our docs, and be replaced by their CIDR equivalents.
> 
> There are suprisingly small number of such places.  What do you think about the 
> patch attached?

> --- books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml	4 Dec 2006 14:43:50 -0000	1.338
> +++ books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml	5 Dec 2006 10:53:35 -0000
> @@ -2356,7 +2356,7 @@
>  
>  	  <listitem>
>  	    <para>The address block being used for this local area
> -	      network is a Class C block
> +	      network is a (historical) Class C block
>  	      (<hostid role="ipaddr">192.168.0.0</hostid> -
>  	      <hostid role="ipaddr">192.168.0.255</hostid>).
>  	      The default netmask is for a Class C network

Any reason we can't get rid of the mention of "class C" in both cases
there?  Something like:

  The address block being used for this local area network is
  192.168.0.0 - 192.168.0.255 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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