On 10/19/10 9:24 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200 > Jens Link <li...@quux.de> wrote: > >> valdis.kletni...@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. >