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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.c
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 06:41:22 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <96Mar17.124305pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Mar 17, 96 12:42:56 pm
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Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

True, but a *lot* of ppl (especially) ISP's are using this code that way.
I just want to make sure nothing breaks. I just committed a patch yesterday
solbing a problem with cklnt_broadcast() RPC broadcasts. Perhaps I should
redo that one to disallow broadcasts to those ip numbers with an all
one netmask ;-().

-Guido