On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 09:10:06PM +0200, Jan Bobrowski wrote:
>
> > > Kernel refuses to set gateway address to one having zeroed host
> > > part (ADDR & ~MASK == 0). I can't find any RFC that forbids it.
> >
> > You're trying to use the network address as gateway.
> > That's not supposed to be done, so refusing it seems
> > a good default.
>
> There's no such thing as "network address" in classless world. If you use
yes there is
> netmasks you can't describe your network using single address.
you said ADDR & ~MASK == 0 yourself. that pretty well defines it.
> Do you know any RFC?
>
not personally.
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