On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:43:06PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Christoph Egger wrote: > > [OpenBSD] commit message: > > -------------------------------------------- > > Fix a 16 year old bug in the sorting routine for non-contiguous netmasks. > > I suggest removing support for non-contiguous netmasks. They are > unusable with CIDR (introduced in 1993 in RFCs 1517, 1518, and 1519). > Even RFC 950 (August 1985) recommended that subnet bits should be > contiguous.
Agreed. I think it was pretty much the consensus too when this was discussed the last time. Joerg
