On Wed, 21 May 1997, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

>   An interface that is assigned IP address 0.0.0.0 receives all
>   packets that the underlying h/w interface receives, i.e. those
>   with the matching h/w address or the h/w broadcast address.

Unfortunately, this means that if you `ifconfig xx0 up' without
supplying an address (for whatever reason, say because something's
broken in an rc script somewhere) you're recieving all packets and,
presumably, trying to deal with them.

I would feel a bit better about doing something explicit to make
sure you recieve all packets, such as setting the address to
255.255.255.255.

cjs

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