From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 19 09:19:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00566 for current-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 09:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00561 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 09:19:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20016; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:19:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:19:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199705191619.MAA20016@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: All zeros still recognized as broadcast?? In-Reply-To: <19970519170904.LV61260@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <19970519170904.LV61260@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 192.168.0.0 0:a0:24:55:7a:c3 UHLWb 0 4 lo0 => > ^ > I thought automatically recognizing all zeros as a (bogus) broadcast > address has been diminished long ago? The all-zeros address really means ``this host'' or ``I don't know'', but for our purposes treating it as a broadcast address gives useful enough behavior. The code which no longer exists of which you are probably thinking is the kluge in ip_input() which would accept such packets as broadcasts even when that address was not configured as an interface's broadcast address. > Also, i can't get rid of this bogus cloned route. A route delete > gives me ``Not in table''. ifconfig .... delete .... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick