From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 19 09:56:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03143 for current-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 09:56:29 -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 JAA03135 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 09:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20128; Mon, 19 May 1997 12:56:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:56:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199705191656.MAA20128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users), wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: All zeros still recognized as broadcast?? In-Reply-To: <19970519183606.JC27358@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <19970519170904.LV61260@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705191619.MAA20016@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19970519183606.JC27358@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < As Garrett Wollman wrote: >> 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. > But i thought this was only for 0.0.0.0? No. > So the unability to use my > own net number as an ethernet IP address is set in stone once and > forever? In IPv4, yes. In IPv6, who cares? > uriah # route delete 192.168.0.0 > writing to routing socket: No such process > delete net 192.168.0.0: not in table That's because it's not a network, but route(8) guessed that it was. Use `route delete -host'. -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