Feature request: sort addresses/networks

Ruben Laban r.laban+lists at ism.nl
Thu Oct 11 20:03:50 CEST 2012


On 10/11/2012 8:33 AM, Ruben Laban wrote:
> Hello bird-maintainers,
>
> I'd like to propose a cosmetic feature request:
>
> The sorting of addresses/networks listed in "show ospf state" (and
> possibly similar commands as well). Currently networks are listed
> semi-random it seems, like so:
>
>    router 10.0.0.1
>      distance 0
>      router 10.0.0.2
>      stubnet 192.168.1.0/24
>      stubnet 192.168.5.0/24
>      stubnet 192.168.3.0/24
>
> I'd like it to display the following instead:
>
>    router 10.0.0.1
>      distance 0
>      router 10.0.0.2
>      stubnet 192.168.1.0/24
>      stubnet 192.168.3.0/24
>      stubnet 192.168.5.0/24
>
> This eases the finding of a given network in sometimes rather largish
> lists.

Perhaps this could be combined with the fixing of the sorting of the 
routers themselves. In my case 178.x.y.z comes before 10.a.b.c.

Regards,
Ruben Laban




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