On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:38:57 PDT, Rick Jones said:

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> One has to set their way-back machine pretty far back to find the *BSD 
> bits which used 0.0.0.0 as the "all nets, all subnets" (to mis-use a 
> term) broadcast IPv4 address when sending.  Perhaps as far back as the 
> time before HP-UX 7 or SunOS4.  The bit errors in my dimm memory get 
> pretty dense that far back...

That would be BSD4.2 - BSD4.3 went to all-ones, and it *was* quite the
little mess if you had both flavors of boxes on the same subnet at the same
time, it would packet-storm *quite* easily.