Control: retitle -1 Please document address1,+address2 notations for IPv6 Hi Cord,
(Here is upstream's (CC'ed) response.) On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 at 12:22:11 -0800, Robert Stone wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 at 17:04:37 +0100, Cord Beermann wrote: >> $ netmask 192.168.0.0:+1 >> 192.168.0.0/31 >> $ netmask 192.168.0.0:+-1 >> 192.167.255.255/32 >> 192.168.0.0/32 >> >> This fails with IPv6: >> >> $ netmask fa00:::+1 > I should clarify the documentation here. Using ":" as a range separator only > works for IPv4 addresses, but "," will work with both IPv4 and IPv6. "netmask > fa00::,+1" will likely do what was intended by the first example. >> netmask: parse error "fa00:::+1" >> $ netmask fa00:::+-1 >> netmask: parse error "fa00:::+-1" > Negative addresses are not supported by "," separated ranges since those > expressions must support multiple address families. This may be enhanced in > the future, but that limitation is why negative address support remains > undocumented. Cheers, -- Guilhem.
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