Re: [HACKERS] cidr

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>
> > > I like INET too.  It is up to you.
> >
> > How do folks feel about polymorphism between IPv4 and IPv6?  Should we (a)
> > make it work (either by making internal_length=10 or going variable length)
> > or (b) just make this thing IPv4 only and take care of IPv6 separately/later?
>
>     Not sure about b, but doesn't FreeBSD (at least) already support
> IPv6?  If so, I imagine that Linux does too?  How much "later" are we
> talking about here?
>
>     I'm sorry, but the IPv4 vs IPv6 issue hasnt' been something I've
> followed much, so don't know the differences...:(

Why not two types, cidr and cidr6?  There's more than one type of int,
float, etc...

Vince.
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