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

Fri Nov 19 19:46:30 UTC 2021

Joe Maimon <jmaimon at 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