[Xorp-hackers] [Xorp-users] Policy network4 operator

[Kristian Larsson]

I think Roberts idea is just great, why not copy
Juniper terminology. We already got a Juniper
lookalike shell.

And just as robert.. I'd go with option B if I had
to choose between the two.

  -K

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:13:04PM -0800, Robert Bays wrote:
> 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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