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Re: CONFIG_INET_SNARL: What for?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Tue Jun 13 18:06:37 1995
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
To: urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 20:22:26 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <3rjm4e$tlk@smurf.noris.de> from "Matthias Urlichs" at Jun 13, 95 11:35:09 am
> CONFIG_INET_SNARL selects whether to use the netmask of a device (set by
> ifconfig) or the IP-class-default netmask (i.e. 255.255.255.0 for a class C
> address) for figuring out which MTU to use for TCP.
With CIDR the two high bits are no longer meaningful. There is no longer
any such thing as inherent "class C".
CONFIG_INET_SNARL should be removed.
--
Shields.
