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Re: CONFIG_INET_SNARL: What for?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Jun 14 07:06:46 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 09:36:14 +0100 (BST)
Cc: urlichs@smurf.noris.de, submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <m0sLcTj-000DYFC@yage.tembel.org> from "Michael Shields" at Jun 13, 95 08:22:26 pm
> > 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.
SNARL has nothing to do with CIDR, current practice or the like. Its there to
reflect larger older organisational practice and still does so. If you don't
need it you answer 'N'.
Alan
