On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 08:08, Sergey Vinogradov <boo...@lazybytes.org> wrote: > Hi, hackers. > I have a question: why ipv4 netmask is displayed by ifconfig in hex format? > Isn't dot-decimal notation more human-readable? Will the attached patch > break something in the very bad way?
Who's using IPv4 anymore? ;-) Seriously though, if you give a small amount of time to learning the hex -> binary translations then you would see how convenient it is to use hex rather than decimal when representing what are ultimately binary numbers. See this blog entry by Jeff Doyle... http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/how-are-your-hexadecimal-skills -- Mike Oliver, KT2T +1-863-738-2334 k...@arrl.net -or- mwoli...@gmail.com Twitter: @mwoliver _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
