Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Sat Nov 20 21:35:12 UTC 2021
> On Nov 19, 2021, at 11:46 , John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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
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