Re: Stupid Question maybe?

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Baldur Norddahl:

> Why do we still have network equipment, where half the configuration
> requires netmask notation, the other half requires CIDR and to throw you
> off, they also included inverse netmasks.

Some also drop the prefix length in diagnostic output if it matches
that of the address class.  So you still need to know about address
classes, unfortunately.