> Bjoern wrote:
>
> > On 12 Sep 2021, at 15:25, Mike Karels wrote:
>
> > > Long ago (4.2BSD), the IP broadcast address was the lowest address on
> > > a
> > > network, the one with a host part of 0. In RFC1122, the broadcast
> > > address
> > > was standardized using a host part of all ones.
>> I would prefer if the current behaviour stayed default (would also MFC
>> better)
>> and then flip if this will indeed go anywhere.
>
> I considered that, but I think that the current behavior is simply
> wrong. We broadcast packets to the lowest address on the net, but
> we don't receive the
Bjoern wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2021, at 15:25, Mike Karels wrote:
> > Long ago (4.2BSD), the IP broadcast address was the lowest address on
> > a
> > network, the one with a host part of 0. In RFC1122, the broadcast
> > address
> > was standardized using a host part of all ones. 4.3BSD changed its
On 12 Sep 2021, at 15:25, Mike Karels wrote:
Long ago (4.2BSD), the IP broadcast address was the lowest address on
a
network, the one with a host part of 0. In RFC1122, the broadcast
address
was standardized using a host part of all ones. 4.3BSD changed its
default, and made the broadcast ad
Mike Karels wrote:
> Comments are welcome on the review. I will wait a couple of days
> for comments before proceeding. I am also interested in comments on
> whether this should be MFC'ed to 13-stable after a suitable delay.
Personally, if an MFC isn't too timeconsuming to do, and there are no
