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Date:      Mon, 19 May 1997 12:56:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@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??
Message-ID:  <199705191656.MAA20128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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>

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<<On Mon, 19 May 1997 18:36:06 +0200, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) said:

> 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

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