Re: Possibly dangerous interpretation of address/prefix pair in -s option

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Chris Hall <netfilter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> For input such as "-s 10.0.0.2/24", the 10.0.0.2 simply isn't a valid
> network address for a /24 network.
> 
> I agree: the parser should detect invalid input and reject it.  I can see no
> good reason for being sloppy here.

It breaks current behaviour; we cannot change this 20 years later.
Its as simple as that.



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