Re: [Patch] improve IPv4 setting UI of nm-applet

[cee1 <fykcee1 gmail com>]

2010/1/11 Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>

2010/1/10 cee1 <fykcee1 gmail com>:

> 2010/1/11 José Queiroz <zekkerj gmail com>
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>> >  3) lack of a proper notification of invalid inputs.
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>> Hmm... this is interesting. Can you explain it in more details?
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> Just a label above ip4_addr_label, see the attachment.
>

Will you also calculate based on the mask if the address is a
broadcast or network id[1] and hence invalid?   For example if I put
in 192.168.0.56 255.255.255.248 or 192.168.0.63 255.255.255.248 it
would be invalid.  Or is this just a check that the IP has valid
ranges in it?

Also shouldn't we at least tell people what to do if something is
incorrect?   For example in your screenshot we could say:
"The value "256" is outside of a valid range, please validate the address"

If we validate the subnet it could be:
"Your address is either a Broadcast address or network ID and hence is invalid"

[1]My old Cisco press books called this network id but I have seen
host id, subnet id, and others in use as the term for this....

It currently doesn't tell people "why the inputs is invalid." The validation is simply done by calling inet_aton.