Re: Incrementing INET fields

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:04:01PM +0200, Peter Nixonn wrote:
> Is there some technical reason (other than finite developer time) that this
> isn't possible at present?

I don't think it makes much sense, without a fair amount of policy
around it. For instance, you'd need to know what to increment to
when you get to 10.1.1.254/32. Moreover, the mask range work you
mentioned as "icing on the cake" is not icing at all: it's part of
the cake, becase CIDR has been here for a long time. So you _have_
to be able to know what range you're in in order to do autoincrement.

You could write a function that would do all this for you, though.

A

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