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   	Rick Jones  writes:   
   > Barry Margolin  wrote:   
   > > IIRC, BSD used both 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.255.255 as the broadcast   
   > > address for the 192.168.0.0/16 network. Any network stack still   
   > > implementing that would not be able to communicate with a machine that   
   > > was assigned this IP.   
   >   
   > *OLD* BSD - like pre 4.2 I think?  And it is stretching the memory   
   > wetware beyond its limits (and actuall hands-on experience), but I   
   > thought that the all-zeros usage for broadcast was toast by the time   
   > subnettting came along.   
      
   Old BSD as in 8.something still treats all zeroes as broadcast, I   
   haven't tried FreeBSD 9 yet. Linux also treats all zeroes as broadcast.   
      
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