Re: Proposal to apply mask to IP address set on rule
Mouse <[email protected]> Fri, 23 May 2025 22:37:17 -0400 (EDT)
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> RFC4652 clearly expects/requires CIDR prefix lengths be powers of > two. I think you probably don't mean that. If you did, there would be only six possible IPv4 prefix lengths: /1, /2, /4, /8, /16, and /32. It's the netblock size, not the prefix length, that must be a power of two. CIDR cannot represent a non-power-of-two-sized block without expressing it as the union of multiple blocks. (To be fair, neither can non-CIDR noncontiguous netmasks; inherent in the mask paradigm is that each block be a power of two in size.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B