Michael Richardson wrote: > > >>>>>>>"Patrick" == Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> The normal way to display masks is with a "/". Also I think > Patrick> it shouldn't display the default mask to avoid breaking > Patrick> scripts that parse the output. > > I generally dislike the /VALUE, since I expect /PREFIX-LEN. > I agree that it shouldn't show if it is default. > > Patrick> ip should be able to parse its own output, and it would > Patrick> also look nicer if I could just say "fwmark > Patrick> 0x1/32". fwmarkmask is really an incredible ugly expression > Patrick> :) > > Sure. Is that a 32-bit long mask (0xfffffff), or is it a 0x00000020? > fwmark is not an address. > > Or would you like /32 to be a prefix-based mask, and &value and/or > fwmarkmask to be a value?
That was not the greatest example :) I think it should be a bitmask. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
