Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:57:46 +0000 | | From | Neil Conway <> | | Subject | Re: 2.1 can't delete routes? |
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Philip Blundell wrote: > > >But how can route(8) know what your netmask is going to be, assume /8 for > >0-127, /16 for 129-191, etc? > > > >Thats just going to cause different MUCH harder to track down problems when > >people have subnetted. > > Exactly. I don't want to change route to do that. If somebody would like to > make the manpage or the error message more helpful instead then I'd welcome a > patch.
Well, I think all the guy meant by "more intelligent" was for route to actually notice when a deletion request without a netmask was completely unambiguous and then act on it.
What could that possibly break ?
Neil
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