Re: wha is ipv4 prefix?? (why not netmask)

["Tambet Ingo" <tambet gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:11 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
>> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> > Miguel Angel Cañedo <mcanedo grupogcm com> writes:
>> >
>> >
>> >> I was pulling my hair trying to set static ipv4 settings.
>> >> Until I realized that NM 0.7 asks for PREFIX instead of NETMASK....
>> >>
>> >> Now, my netmask should be 255.255.0.0
>> >> How do I transalte that into the Prefix?
>> >>
>> >
>> > /16 ?
>> >
>> I also thought the wording was less-than-clear.
>
> We should really be accepting a netmask in that field and autoconverting
> to a prefix when you hit tab or move out of the field.  There are quite
> a few rough edges to the connection editor that we do need to fix up.

One less rough edge, I renamed the column header to "Netmask" (from
"Prefix") and the column now accepts both prefix length and netmask.

Tambet