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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Gerd Knorr wrote: > In lists.linux.kernel you write: > >> > Those values are NOT integers originally, they are octet arrays. > >> What? > >> The values are IPv4 addresses. There is _one_ standard way of printing > >> them, and that standard way is as four decimal numbers. EVERYBODY prints > >> them that way. It's the only sane way to show them. > >> > >> There is no question in my mind - printing out IPv4 addresses as hex > >> "integers" is wrong. It has always been wrong, and it's wrong now. It > >> happens to be very simple, which is the excuse for doing it, but it's > >> still wrong. > >Yet netmasks are bit-oriented, thus more intelligible as hex > >integers. > I like the 192.168.42.105/24 thing for netmasks. Gerd, Yay !!!!!! I would definatly like to see this method put into the system for -all- tcp/ip network aspects, without losing the 255.255.255.255 method though . Heck, IF Crisco & company can we sure should be able to . Tia, JimL +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere - Network Engineer - babydr@baby-dragons.com | | System Techniques - 25416 - 22nd S. - Des-Moines, WA 98198 | | Give me VMS -or- Give me Linux -but- only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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