[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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