From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:33:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12044.1190234012@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:38:57 PDT." <46F16CC1.9090302@hp.com>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 15:21 Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 15:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 16:49 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 16:52 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 17:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 17:27 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 17:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 17:46 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 17:57 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 18:02 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 18:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 18:38 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-19 19:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 20:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2007-09-19 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-19 16:15 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 16:39 ` Alan Cox
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