[ntp:hackers] Refids in hex?

John Hay jhay at icomtek.csir.co.za
Mon Aug 18 22:33:08 PDT 2003


> 
> 	In trying to track down some problems with IPv6, one of the 
> things we encountered is the fact that the scoreboard is truncating 
> the "remote" field, which is very unhelpful with IPv6 addresses.
...
> 	One idea I had is that, since the refid is just a 32-bit number, 
> and currently is displayed as an IPv4 address only for the sake of 
> convenience, was to instead change the display format so that this is 
> represented as a hex value.  Among other things, this would give us 
> more space for the "remote" field.

What about adding a "wide" option that print wider than the normal 80
char width? Something like what ps -w does on the BSDs. We talked about
it a long time ago and IIRC it was accepted as a good idea, but nobody
did it.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay at icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org



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