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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 Mar 96 12:18:03 PST."
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:42:56 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199603172018.VAA21057@gvr.win.tue.nl> you write:
>But to just make checks like `if the interface
>has another ip address within the same subnet with a netmask != 0xffffffff
>then return that other netmask' is a gross hack :-(

Well, to use a mechanism that was originally intended to allow for multiple
subnets on the same interface to instead give yourself several addresses
on the same subnet is also a gross hack.  Need gross hacks to support gross
hacks, or a new cleanly architected mechanism for multiple IP addresses
on the same subnet.

  Bill