Re: Question: Gateway address == 0

From: Jan Bobrowski (jb@wizard.ae.krakow.pl)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 12:13:17 EST


> > Certainly, casual breaks are prohibited, and if we spot any we fix it as a
> > bug. However, well-considered breaks (including considering interoperability
> > consequences) and, more important, fixes for RFC bugs have always been ok.
>
> Right, but this isn't one of them. There are good reasons for this
> restriction.

The system will not break if I'll set host address to zero. Decision
whether to conform to RFC's should be in my hands. It seems that that
Linux is another system that "knows better".

JB

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