[Bug 844] Can set apparently invalid netmask for hash:ip

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https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844

Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec at netfilter.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec at netfilter.org> 2013-08-14 16:50:45 CEST ---
The argument-order dependent netmask checking is fixed in bugzilla #841.

As to why speficic netmask values are excluded:

IPv4 32 and IPv6 128: those are identical with not spefifying the netmask
at all. Technically these cases could be allowed.

For IPv6 the netmasks less than 4 are not allowed because those are not
user friendly in the IPv6 notation: a::/4 is OK, but do you
know the boundary IPv6 addresses for a::/3?

124 is a compromise between a user friendly network and RFC3627. I believe
most people would argue that 64 should be the largest value instead of 124.

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