Wildcards provide greater functionality with acls (possibly in rare cases), as it's mot mandatory to follow strict subnetting rules like in network masks.
-- Tassos Scott Granados wrote on 21/3/2008 5:07 πμ: > Right or at least be consistent, use masks or wild card bits but not both. > I remember someone discussing the hardware reasons for this but still.:) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Whisper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Wink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:45 PM > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the > otherday. > > >> cidr notation for inputting ip addresses for all platforms >> >> 192.168.0.1/24 >> >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Wink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I think he means across all platforms the MAC address should be >>> formatted the same. >>> >>> More generally, I wish IOS was more consistent. Such as the use "mask" >>> or "netmask" in various places. >>> >>> I also wish that the new features weren't always released in a >>> "half-way" fashion. So "yay!" Cisco can do xyz, but only with numbered >>> ACLs, or the feature can only be bound to a loopback, or VRFs are not >>> supported. Until 10 releases later. >>> >>> All that being said, Cisco has the richest feature set there is, so >>> obviously getting everything integrated with all the other features >>> probably takes a long time. >>> >>> Sridhar Ayengar wrote: >>>> Wyatt Mattias Ishmael Jovial Gyllenvarg wrote: >>>> >>>>> How about mac addresses are always in the same format and always lower >>> case? >>>>> That one is enough too make me fart blood! >>>>> >>>> So what exactly is the problem with that? It's a hexadecimal number. >>>> >>>> Any random pile of text you could come up with could just be >>>> represented >>>> by a much longer hexadecimal number. >>>> >>>> Peace... Sridhar >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >>>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >>>> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >>> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
