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SubjectRe: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:38:57 PDT, Rick Jones said:

> One has to set their way-back machine pretty far back to find the *BSD
> bits which used 0.0.0.0 as the "all nets, all subnets" (to mis-use a
> term) broadcast IPv4 address when sending. Perhaps as far back as the
> time before HP-UX 7 or SunOS4. The bit errors in my dimm memory get
> pretty dense that far back...

That would be BSD4.2 - BSD4.3 went to all-ones, and it *was* quite the
little mess if you had both flavors of boxes on the same subnet at the same
time, it would packet-storm *quite* easily.
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