[c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the other day.

[Whisper]

cidr notation for inputting ip addresses for all platforms

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Wink <dwinkworth at wi.rr.com> wrote:

> I think he means across all platforms the MAC address should be
> formatted the same.
>
> More generally, I wish IOS was more consistent.  Such as the use "mask"
> or "netmask" in various places.
>
> I also wish that the new features weren't always released in a
> "half-way" fashion.  So "yay!" Cisco can do xyz, but only with numbered
> ACLs, or the feature can only be bound to a loopback, or VRFs are not
> supported.  Until 10 releases later.
>
> All that being said, Cisco has the richest feature set there is, so
> obviously getting everything integrated with all the other features
> probably takes a long time.
>
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> > Wyatt Mattias Ishmael Jovial Gyllenvarg wrote:
> >
> >> How about mac addresses are always in the same format and always lower
> case?
> >>
> >> That one is enough too make me fart blood!
> >>
> >
> > So what exactly is the problem with that?  It's a hexadecimal number.
> >
> > Any random pile of text you could come up with could just be represented
> > by a much longer hexadecimal number.
> >
> > Peace...  Sridhar
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