This is a good question and has sometimes bothered me in the past. What is needed is a standard for how to represent netmasks and some routines to manipulate - input, output, membership of nework and all members of a network - should be enough?
This information is gathered by ip_discover, but then thrown away - as is the detail of all the other addresses that a node might have. But I would be reluctant to add this extra info if this would break existing tools or they could not take advantage of it.
I suppose one could have extra attributes like netmask and address list?
Any views on this - Juergen?
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