>> > Those values are NOT integers originally, they are octet arrays.
>>
>> What?
>>
>> The values are IPv4 addresses. There is _one_ standard way of printing
>> them, and that standard way is as four decimal numbers. EVERYBODY prints
>> them that way. It's the only sane way to show them.
>>
>> There is no question in my mind - printing out IPv4 addresses as hex
>> "integers" is wrong. It has always been wrong, and it's wrong now. It
>> happens to be very simple, which is the excuse for doing it, but it's
>> still wrong.
>Yet netmasks are bit-oriented, thus more intelligible as hex
>integers.
I like the 192.168.42.105/24 thing for netmasks.
Gerd
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