Followup to: <20000410170638.A7359@saw.sw.com.sg>
By author: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > This implies that a gateway address, being a regular IP address used
> > by a router, may not have the value 0 for "Host-number" (the part
> > after the network mask). Nothing to argue at all.
>
> RFC isn't Bible. I don't know any good reasoning for such restrictions.
>
Actually, it *IS* the Bible for these kinds of stuff, and the good
reasoning is interoperability.
-hpa
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