From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 19 08:22:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA27086 for current-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 08:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA27081 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 08:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA18138 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 19 May 1997 17:22:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA00594; Mon, 19 May 1997 17:09:04 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970519170904.LV61260@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 17:09:04 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: All zeros still recognized as broadcast?? X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk j@uriah 100% netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 934 lo0 192.168.0.0 0:a0:24:55:7a:c3 UHLWb 0 4 lo0 => ^ I've incidentally tried to assign 192.168.0.0 to an ethernet interface. The above route is the result, the `b' flag telling me: b RTF_BROADCAST The route represents a broadcast address I thought automatically recognizing all zeros as a (bogus) broadcast address has been diminished long ago? Needless to say, i can't really work with this address. Pinging myself yields a ``Can't assign requested address'' then. Isn't this just a waste of address space only? (I was going to assign a four- host subnet to a colleague, with the intention to have three usable addresses plus the broadcast address.) Also, i can't get rid of this bogus cloned route. A route delete gives me ``Not in table''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)