Re: Support for 240/4 and 0/8 addresses in NetBSD

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:39:38 +1200
    From:        Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <bf69622f-d685-eb81-d1c2-f386f2f2a2bb%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>

  | 2) 90% of the references to IN_CLASS* in the NetBSD kernel are related 
  | to testing for localhost addresses. Since the localhost network has 
  | always had an explicit /8 netmask and was never defined as a class A 
  | network,

That's wrong, localhost (and net 127) has been in use since long before
netmasks were invented, and net 127 certainly was a class A network
(when such things still existed).

kre