On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:03:27AM -0500, alexis@panix.com wrote:
> 
> That aside, why repeat this info at all?
> 
> Is there ever any case where the address will not be part of the network (at
> least in IPv[46]? Why not just this:
> 
> Name  Mtu   Network &&/|| Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs Colls
> sm1   1500  <Link>        00:00:86:05:80:fa     2358     0     2581     0    38
> sm1   1500  fe80:1::200:86ff:fe05:80fa/64       2358     0     2581     0    38


For IPv6, this sounds ok.

For IPv4, there are some people out there who use (or at least used)
non-contiguous netmasks. 

But then, the old nestat also didn't provide this information, so it
doesn't really matter.

	-is
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