On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:13:32AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2016/12/13 10:51, Reyk Floeter wrote: > > printing the netmask in hex seems to be a historical artifact in ifconfig; > > I always wondered about it and I never got used to it. > > > > The following diff changes ifconfig output to print contiguous > > netmasks in CIDR notation. Non-contiguous netmasks will still be > > printed in full, tunnels will print explicit "prefixlen" because it is > > not unambiguous where the mask belongs to in this case. > > > > lo1: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> rdomain 1 mtu 32768 > > index 7 priority 0 llprio 3 > > groups: lo > > inet6 ::1/128 > > inet6 fe80::1%lo1/64 scopeid 0x7 > > inet 10.2.1.100 netmask 0xffff00ff > > inet 10.3.100.1/24 > > > > A similar change has been done in NetBSD and FreeBSD is doing the > > FreeBSD thing by providing an -f command-line button to select one of > > three output modes ... > > > > Thoughts? > > From when this came up before: > > http://marc.info/?t=142737415000006&r=1&w=2 > > The installer needs to be modified, I'm not sure if anything else might > turn up. >
Thanks, I forgot about this thread. At least I solved the printing of non-contiguous netmasks :) I think scripts and things like Ansible can be fixed. Reyk
