20 Nov
2021
20 Nov
'21
4:35 p.m.
On Nov 19, 2021, at 11:46 , John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> wrote:
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
Don’t get me started on BSD vs. IETF Standards… The whole stupidity around VRRP and CARP still irritates me, so I don’t think holding up the BSD attitude towards network standards is helping your case any. Owen