[ih] The netmask

Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) lyndon at orthanc.ca
Tue Jan 7 16:27:32 PST 2025


Tony Li writes:

> No, you are not.  The original BSD implementation of subnetting did =
> support discontiguous subnet masks.  See the radix trie implementation =
> in the BSD source code if you want a headache.

... and I remember reading about this in the (probably 3.5) SunOS
documentation, so it all makes sense now.

--lyndon


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