On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> 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.
I it stupid to forbid it just because it somewhere may not work. It's
admin's responsibility to choose right address and if I want to have zero
I should be allowed to do so. Linux should allow weird configurations if
they are not prohibited by specs (even some prohibited).
JB
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