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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:40:50 +0200
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> It has hung-on in various places (stacks) as an "accepted" broadcast IP 
> in the receive path, but not the send path for quite possibly decades now.

Well it is valid in Linux for sending.  And who knows who relies on it.

-Andi