On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 at 11:32, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Does anyone here know if Clay's concern about subnets vs netmasks in accurate and whether it affects the usability of the module?
I can't speak to usability of the module, not having looked at it yet, but as far as I know from 10+ years of experience programming Cisco and other routers, a host address can always also be considered as a subnet consisting of one address. The netmask is 255.255.255.255, and is called a "host mask". That said, address+hostmask is not always the way you _think_ about an individual address; it depends on the context. FWIW I hate dealing with non-subnet-aligned IP address ranges whenever they come up. But it is true that they do come up. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
