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Author	xtreak
Recipients	lin.lin, pmoody, remi.lapeyre, xtreak
Date	2019-01-14.11:54:42
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Message-id	<1547466882.91.0.69042552603.issue35734@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> I couldn't find any use of _is_valid_netmask() in the code, why should this netmask be invalid? There is an open issue to remove this method which is unused and undocumented issue27860. I have less knowledge on the subnet masking area but on searching the web there seems to be an RFC that asks for contiguous ones without intermixing zeroes that I hope OP is referring to. * https://superuser.com/questions/601252/is-225-225-225-128-a-valid-subnet-mask * https://superuser.com/questions/1151908/non-contiguous-subnet-mask/1151942#1151942

> I couldn't find any use of _is_valid_netmask() in the code, why should this netmask be invalid?

There is an open issue to remove this method which is unused and undocumented issue27860. 

I have less knowledge on the subnet masking area but on searching the web there seems to be an RFC that asks for contiguous ones without intermixing zeroes that I hope OP is referring to.

* https://superuser.com/questions/601252/is-225-225-225-128-a-valid-subnet-mask
* https://superuser.com/questions/1151908/non-contiguous-subnet-mask/1151942#1151942

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