svn commit: r190775 - head/sbin/route

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Tue Apr 7 00:38:30 PDT 2009


On 2009-Apr-06 18:45:29 +0100, Robert Watson <rwatson at 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, 

A possible mechanism to handle CIDR routing is to have /etc/netmasks
ala Solaris which specifies netmask sizes for different subnets.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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