man cidr_table(5) enhancement

[Scott Kitterman]

I'm writing this as a result of a bug [1] filed by a Debian user that the
cidr_table man page wasn't completely clear about acceptable notation for
IPv6. I find it's clear enough myself, but in light of the user confusion I
do think including an IPv6 address in the example might help.

Please see the attached trivial patch for consideration. It uses the IETF
sanctioned example IPv6 addresses, because why not?

Scott K


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832803

[Wietse Venema]

Post by Scott Kitterman
I'm writing this as a result of a bug [1] filed by a Debian user that the
cidr_table man page wasn't completely clear about acceptable notation for
IPv6. I find it's clear enough myself, but in light of the user confusion I
do think including an IPv6 address in the example might help.
Please see the attached trivial patch for consideration. It uses the IETF
sanctioned example IPv6 addresses, because why not?
Scott K
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832803

Just checking: is 2001:db8::/32 a non-routed network?

Wietse

[Wietse Venema]

Post by Wietse Venema

Post by Scott Kitterman
I'm writing this as a result of a bug [1] filed by a Debian user that the
cidr_table man page wasn't completely clear about acceptable notation for
IPv6. I find it's clear enough myself, but in light of the user confusion I
do think including an IPv6 address in the example might help.
Please see the attached trivial patch for consideration. It uses the IETF
sanctioned example IPv6 addresses, because why not?
Scott K
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832803

Just checking: is 2001:db8::/32 a non-routed network?

According to RFC 3849 it is reserved for documentation.

Wietse