On Monday 29 October 2018 10:45:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2018 08:53:35 Michael Stone wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 08:18:44PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > >On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 12:56:13PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > >> The definition for netmask I find in that section is > > >> netmask mask > > >> Netmask (dotted quad or CIDR) > > >> > > >> which at a glance would lead me to expect a full CIDR-format > > >> address (e.g., 192.168.1.1/24) here. That would clearly seem > > >> redundant with the address field immediately above, but I don't > > >> know of anything else that's consistent with CIDR notation. > > > > > >I agree that this part of the manpage is in dire need of good > > > wording. I'd replace it with "Netmask (dotted quad or number of > > > bits, eg 24)", because that's how it actually works. > > > > I opened https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912220 to > > clarify this section. If anyone has other suggestions, please add > > them to the bug. > > > > Mike Stone > > Is it a separate bug to fuss about the near total lack of meaning to > the man pages for ip and its children? added question mark
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