On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 09:22:50PM +0200, Jan Bobrowski wrote:
>
> Are you sure? If zero host part is not forbidden it is legal! If algoritms
> may fail they are wrong. It should be explicitly specified somewhere that
> some addresses are not allowed.
Some older systems treat that as broadcast address. That's why you don't
want this.
> Linux allows to set host part of host address to zero. But gateways are
> not allowed.
And rightfully so: did you ever ping a "network address" in a real world
environment? You'll be surprised how many systems answer to that...
Setting the gateway address to the network base address is just as stupid
as setting it to the broadcast address.
Dominik Kubla
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