From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:33:32 -0400 Message-ID: <12044.1190234012@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <46F13E8B.4050309@redhat.com> <46F15305.2030507@redhat.com> <20070919172653.GB18045@one.firstfloor.org> <46F1608E.7060908@redhat.com> <20070919175700.GC18045@one.firstfloor.org> <46F16418.3070706@redhat.com> <20070919183004.GA18707@one.firstfloor.org> <46F16CC1.9090302@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1190234012_23458P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andi Kleen , Ulrich Drepper , netdev , Linux Kernel To: Rick Jones Return-path: Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:54130 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752639AbXISUd7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:33:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:38:57 PDT." <46F16CC1.9090302@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1190234012_23458P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:38:57 PDT, Rick Jones said: > One has to set their way-back machine pretty far back to find the *BSD > bits which used 0.0.0.0 as the "all nets, all subnets" (to mis-use a > term) broadcast IPv4 address when sending. Perhaps as far back as the > time before HP-UX 7 or SunOS4. The bit errors in my dimm memory get > pretty dense that far back... That would be BSD4.2 - BSD4.3 went to all-ones, and it *was* quite the little mess if you had both flavors of boxes on the same subnet at the same time, it would packet-storm *quite* easily. --==_Exmh_1190234012_23458P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFG8YeccC3lWbTT17ARAqunAKDITtSZTXc/9Um64aoRyoJbUreskgCaArs7 G7L5Gmde0JIJtWGVSYokWc4= =Io+b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1190234012_23458P--