On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> It is definitely time to add a switch to turn off current "host 0 is
> broadcast" behavior. While it will need to be default on for quite some
> time (there are still a lot of SunOS 4.X hosts out there), it should be
> available to people who have clean networks with modern OS's on them. In
> the modern CIDR world, it's silly (and wasteful) to reserve two addresses
> per subnet for broadcast.

Yes, but host 0 still means "this host" or "unknown host" doesn't it? So
it would still not be a valid host address.

> 	Erik <fair@clock.org>
-Olaf.
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