On 10/19/10 9:24 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200 Jens Link <lists@quux.de> wrote:
Valdis.Kletnieks@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.
Of course ifconfig will also happily take whatever mask you feed it in your choice of notation so it's not exactly a bronze age tool.
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.