Re: Proposal to apply mask to IP address set on rule

Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Edgar Fuß <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> It is extremely common to express a "subnet" as "addr/mask" and still
    >> have non-zero host bits in the "addr" part.

    > Is it? I never use that.

The advantage of doing so is that you no longer risk zeroing the wrong number
of bits when go from a /128 to the subnet that encloses it.  v6: pretty
non-trivial to get right.  v4 with non-multiples of 8: saves many mistakes.
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