> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:51:40 +0100 > From: Reyk Floeter <r...@openbsd.org> > > Hi, > > printing the netmask in hex seems to be a historical artifact in ifconfig; > I always wondered about it and I never got used to it. > > The following diff changes ifconfig output to print contiguous > netmasks in CIDR notation. Non-contiguous netmasks will still be > printed in full, tunnels will print explicit "prefixlen" because it is > not unambiguous where the mask belongs to in this case. > > lo1: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> rdomain 1 mtu 32768 > index 7 priority 0 llprio 3 > groups: lo > inet6 ::1/128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo1/64 scopeid 0x7 > inet 10.2.1.100 netmask 0xffff00ff > inet 10.3.100.1/24 > > A similar change has been done in NetBSD and FreeBSD is doing the > FreeBSD thing by providing an -f command-line button to select one of > three output modes ... > > Thoughts?
I'd say it is a bad idea to mix the two forms in ifconfig output.
