Fix a bug in route(8)

Nuno Antunes nuno.antunes at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 17:58:42 PDT 2007


On 9/10/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>     Works here.  I noticed something while testing it... netstat -rn
>     (display routes) is not displaying CIDR blocks properly.  Look:
>
> Internet:
> Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          0      183    lo0
> 128.0/8            216.240.41.5       UGSc        0        0   nfe0
>
>     That should read 128/8, not 128.0/8.  It's mixing the core classes
>     with the CIDR specification.
>
>     Would you like to have a go at fixing that, too?

Yeah, I've seen that too. I think that netstat should be teached
better regarding CIDR. I'll have a look at it during this week.

>     If nobody reports any bugs I'll commit your route patch on Monday.
>
>                                         -Matt

Thanks,
Nuno





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