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

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Wildcards provide greater functionality with acls (possibly in rare cases), as it's mot mandatory to follow strict subnetting 
rules like in network masks.

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Tassos

Scott Granados wrote on 21/3/2008 5:07 πμ:
> 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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