From fbb69392a87ddadc54207d469582071b222d1aad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Fumerola Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 23:21:45 +0000 Subject: remove bogus comment that "nobody knows why" wildcard notation exists. Netmask are contiguous bits, wildcard masks don't need to be. The former is accurate for defining subnets and the latter is useful for describing ranges for firewalls, route maps, or other such things. example: 10.0.10.0 is nntp1.domain.com, 10.0.11.0 is nntp2.local.com access-list 185 permit tcp any gt 1023 10.0.10.0 0.0.1.0 eq nntp --- net-mgmt/whatmask/pkg-descr | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net-mgmt') diff --git a/net-mgmt/whatmask/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/whatmask/pkg-descr index 9a3fdb5fb8cc..851c7cd53f69 100644 --- a/net-mgmt/whatmask/pkg-descr +++ b/net-mgmt/whatmask/pkg-descr @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Netmask notation is pretty much the standard old-school way of doing it. It is supported by most systems (Un*x, Win, Mac, etc.). Wilcard bits are similar to the netmask, but they are the logical not of the -netmask. This notation is used by a number of popular routers (and nobody -knows why...). +netmask. This notation is used by a number of popular routers. WWW: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/whatmask.html -- cgit v1.2.3