AppleTalk MIB question
Jay Laefer <jay@gordian.com> Thu, 03 March 1994 01:02 UTC
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From: Jay Laefer <jay@gordian.com>
To: apple-ip@cayman.cayman.com
Subject: AppleTalk MIB question
I'm having trouble understanding what ddpBroadcastErrors is supposed to count. According to the text: "The total number of input DDP datagrams dropped because this entity was not their final destination and they were addressed to the link level broadcast." This text is the same in RFC 1243 and in the mib2-02 draft. And, if I remember my OSI layer cake properly, the link level would be Ethernet, Token Ring, etc. So, my question is: Why would I drop a packet because it was addressed to the link level broadcast? The text implies that there's a rule that says that link level broadcasts should not be forwarded by a router. In particular, this is very strongly implied by the fact that this counter is in the new DDP Router Group. However, I can't find a reference to this rule in my copy of _Inside Appletalk_, 2nd ed. Thanks for any help, -Jay Laefer jay@gordian.com
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