On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200 Jens Link <li...@quux.de> wrote: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > > >> You are going to kill about 90% of all net-/sysadmins? > > > > Do you *really* want somebody working on your network that gets confused by > > a > > reference to 213/8 because it's in Class-C space? > > Don't get me wrong. I like the idea. Especially after the discussion I had > with someone this afternoon. > > > And "Cisco is still teaching it" is *not* an excuse > > Windows and Linux ifconfig are still using it. Enter a Class-A/B/C > address and take a look at the mask they suggest. >
Under Linux, ifconfig is probably deprecated, and just being left around for people who're used to it. iproute2 a.k.a. the 'ip' utility is the way to access/configure far more of the IP stack settings under linux. Regards, Mark.
