Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 06:41:22 +0100 (MET) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: fenner@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.c Message-ID: <199603180541.GAA22370@gvr.win.tue.nl> 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
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