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| author | billf <billf@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-21 07:21:45 +0800 |
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| committer | billf <billf@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-21 07:21:45 +0800 |
| commit | be01858998a0f17963329481f3968a5dd0868d45 (patch) | |
| tree | dd21d17d9259e9a2348f382b1306a348c83518ae /net/whatmask | |
| parent | 814db42bae322e6d4f5b2c7f882e341582e94443 (diff) | |
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remove bogus comment that "nobody knows why" wildcard notation exists.
Netmask are contiguous bits, wildcard masks don't need to be.
The former is accurate for defining subnets and the latter is useful for
describing ranges for firewalls, route maps, or other such things.
example:
10.0.10.0 is nntp1.domain.com, 10.0.11.0 is nntp2.local.com
access-list 185 permit tcp any gt 1023 10.0.10.0 0.0.1.0 eq nntp
Diffstat (limited to 'net/whatmask')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/whatmask/pkg-descr | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/whatmask/pkg-descr b/net/whatmask/pkg-descr index 9a3fdb5fb8c..851c7cd53f6 100644 --- a/net/whatmask/pkg-descr +++ b/net/whatmask/pkg-descr @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Netmask notation is pretty much the standard old-school way of doing it. It is supported by most systems (Un*x, Win, Mac, etc.). Wilcard bits are similar to the netmask, but they are the logical not of the -netmask. This notation is used by a number of popular routers (and nobody -knows why...). +netmask. This notation is used by a number of popular routers. WWW: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/whatmask.html |