I have some scripts that do fairly crude IPv4/6 validation testing. It is 
generally
assumed that the input is coming from someone who knows what they are doing, 
but even the
best of us have fat fingers sometimes :) Having standardized routines for 
something like
this is great!

Thanks,
-Markham

On 13-08-06 11:45 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Polytropon wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:50:37 +0000, Teske, Devin wrote:
>>> And yes... to clarify... the port is a mirror of what's in 9.x base.
>>> (however, see my recent notes in a separate reply; TL;DR: port is
>>> 9.x only; proceed only if you know you don't care about the dialog(1)
>>> aspects of the library code).
>> I think it should be relatively unproblematic to fetch the
>> port and only use the subroutines "as is", even if it's just
>> for educational purposes. :-)
>>
> Right.
>
> Just a warning though, what is "fetched" in ports is actually in the format 
> of what's in HEAD (read: not in the format of what gets installed).
>
> For example, there are things that end up in /usr/share/bsdconfig that aren't 
> in the "bsdconfig/share/" source directory (e.g., all the stuff under 
> /usr/share/bsdconfig/networking is under the source directory 
> "bsdconfig/networking/share"). This may be counter-intuitive from an 
> "exploratory" view if looking at the source directory (what's fetched by 
> ports).
>
> And since the port Makefile will prevent you from turning that fetch'ed 
> source directory into an installed software (putting things where they end 
> up), it might be easier to grab this pre-built package that I stashed...
>
> http://druidbsd.sf.net/download/bsdconfig/bsdconfig-0.9.0.tbz
>
> Because then you can say "pkg_add" and everything will be in the right place 
> (/usr/share/bsdconfig/ will be flush with everything and you won't have to 
> hunt-and-peck through the source with a "maintainers" view).

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