Re: 2.1 can't delete routes?
Neil Conway (nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:57:46 +0000
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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