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?? Message-ID: <19970519170904.LV61260@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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. ;-)
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