Hello!
> Yes. It didn't in 2.0.
Soooory, it did. This behavior is copied from there. :-)
> Yes. I liked such logic thirty years ago. That is Unix.
:-) Seems, thirty years ago there were not only Internet but Unix too.
BTW I did not hear about any kind of Unix, which forgets
to set a valid mask on newly selected address.
ifconfig eth0 193.233.7.65 works nicely everywhere.
Only on 4.2BSD it creates bad "zero" broadcast.
Alexey
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