Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Should an IPv4 netmask be its own fieldtype?

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sep 30, 2015, at 9:00 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> A pure netmask (without an associated address) is representable as
>> just a UINT8. Would it be terrible to write `protocolXYZ.netmask ==
>> 24`?
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> Some are sent over the wire as a 32-bit mask, which could, conceivably, have holes in the middle.

Right, so I guess a UINT32, with some sort of dfilter syntax shortcut
for "/x" == (2^x)-1?