[Xorp-hackers] Policy network4 operator

[Robert Bays]

Maybe it makes more sense to use Juniper terminology; exact, longer,
orlonger, through, upto...

Short of that, I prefer option B.

Cheers,
Robert.

Mike Horn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Pavlin and I have been discussing what the "right" direction should be
> for the network4 operator in policy statements.  Right now if you
> specify "network4 <= 10.0.0.0/8" this would match all the 10.0.0.0/8 and
> longer prefixes (i.e. 10.0.0.0/9, 10.1.0.0/16, etc.).
> 
> My recommendation is to change the operator from "<=" matches longer
> prefixes to ">=" matches longer prefixes, since this seems more
> intuitive to me (/9 is > /8) and this would make it match the
> "prefix-length4" operator where "prefix-length4 > 24" matches all
> prefixes longer than /24.
> 
> Which do you prefer:
> 
> A) keep it the way it is now, < matches longer prefixes
> B) changing it to use > for longer prefix matches
> 
> Btw, the bug on this is 358
> 
> _http://www.xorp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=358_
> 
> -mike
> 
> 
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