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

From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:46:30 -0800

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

Current thread:

Re: multihoming, (continued)
- - - Re: multihoming Michael Thomas (Nov 25)
    - Re: multihoming Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 27)
    - Re: multihoming Masataka Ohta via NANOG (Nov 24)
    - Re: is ipv6 fast, was silly Redeploying Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 21)
    - Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Eliot Lear (Nov 21)
    - Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Lincoln Dale (Nov 22)
    - Re: WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Dave Taht (Nov 18)
    - Re: WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Joe Maimon (Nov 18)
    - Re: WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 19)
    - Re: WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Joe Maimon (Nov 19)
    - Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast John Gilmore (Nov 19)
    - Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 20)
    - Re: WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 19)
    - Message not available
    - Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Mark Andrews (Nov 17)
    - Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Joe Maimon (Nov 17)
    - Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 19)
    - Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Joe Maimon (Nov 19)
    - Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 19)
    - Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 19)
    - Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Joe Maimon (Nov 19)
    - Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 20)

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