On 13/12/16(Tue) 11:32, Reyk Floeter wrote: > [...] > Simple reasons: this is a different discussion or diff. If we would > want to remove non-contiguous netmasks completely, it should be done > in the stack. Until then, it is better that ifconfig can cope with > them.
The stack no longer support them. But nobody did the work to fully clean it. I agree with Peter, if it's not extra work for you to remove that from ifconfig(8) that's one step towards cleaning this.
