On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:38:57 PDT, Rick Jones said: > One has to set their way-back machine pretty far back to find the *BSD > bits which used 0.0.0.0 as the "all nets, all subnets" (to mis-use a > term) broadcast IPv4 address when sending. Perhaps as far back as the > time before HP-UX 7 or SunOS4. The bit errors in my dimm memory get > pretty dense that far back...
That would be BSD4.2 - BSD4.3 went to all-ones, and it *was* quite the little mess if you had both flavors of boxes on the same subnet at the same time, it would packet-storm *quite* easily.
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