Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast

Joe Maimon <jmaimon@jmaimon.com> wrote:

And all thats needed to be done is to drop this ridiculous .0 for broadcast compatibility from standards.....why is this even controversial?

Not to put words in his mouth, but that's how original BSD maintainer Mike Karels seemed to feel when we raised this issue for FreeBSD. He was like, what? We're wasting an address per subnet for 4.2BSD compatability? Since 1986? Let's fix that. John