RE: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip

Sam James (sam.james@adelphia.com)
Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:39:42 -0400

Wietse wrote:
>and the rest of the world. Requiring the local sysadmin to enumerate
>all local subnetwork blocks by hand is not practical.
>

Asking a sysadmin to throw 192.168.0.1/24 in a config file doesn't sound
very impractical.

even if he is homed on 4 or 5 different networks it donesnt sound like a big
deal, I understand you seem to want the Bill Gates version of a mailer
install, but sometimes the next button just isn't enoph.

Sam
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