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

[Scott Granados]

Right or at least be consistent, use masks or wild card bits but not both. 
I remember someone discussing the hardware reasons for this but still.:)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Whisper" <whisper555 at gmail.com>
To: "Wink" <dwinkworth at wi.rr.com>
Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the 
otherday.


> cidr notation for inputting ip addresses for all platforms
>
> 192.168.0.1/24
>
> 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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