On 2009-Apr-06 18:45:29 +0100, Robert Watson <rwat...@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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