> On Nov 19, 2021, at 11:46 , John Gilmore <g...@toad.com> wrote:
> 
> Joe Maimon <jmai...@jmaimon.com> wrote:
>> And all thats needed to be done is to drop this ridiculous .0 for 
>> broadcast compatibility from standards.....why is this even controversial?
> 
> Not to put words in his mouth, but that's how original BSD maintainer
> Mike Karels seemed to feel when we raised this issue for FreeBSD.  He
> was like, what?  We're wasting an address per subnet for 4.2BSD
> compatability?  Since 1986?  Let's fix that.
> 
>       John

Don’t get me started on BSD vs. IETF Standards… The whole stupidity
around VRRP and CARP still irritates me, so I don’t think holding up
the BSD attitude towards network standards is helping your case any.

Owen

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