Re: [RFC] /proc/fs/nfsd/exports
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
31 Oct 1998 05:48:05 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9810301024020.1127-100000@azuth.tin.it>
By author: Riccardo Facchetti <fizban@tin.it>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Gerd Knorr wrote:
>
> > >Yet netmasks are bit-oriented, thus more intelligible as hex
> > >integers.
> >
> > I like the 192.168.42.105/24 thing for netmasks.
>
> Just a note.
> If I remember right, from a discussion on an italian mailing-list about
> networking, the bits in a netmask should be contiguous but it is not
> strictly required. So the /24 part means nothing if you have not
> contiguous bits in the mask.
>
> Please no flames, this is only a thing to think about: I may be wrong of
> course.
>
Oh, it is strictly required. Some OSes may not require it, but the
RFC specs, and some other OSes definitely do.
-hpa
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