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Re: Win95 won't forget old IP address

Mark Sirota <msirota@isc.upenn.edu> Wed, 12 June 1996 22:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: Win95 won't forget old IP address
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Christopher Davis wrote:
> Actually Win95 is working, and whatever relay-agent/dhcp server you have
> is broken. The drafts for sometime has clarified that NAK's MUST always
> go to 0xffffffff.

Aha!  Can you point me to a particular passage so that I can yell at Cisco
about that?  I don't see it in any of the documents I've read over...  In
fact, all of this stuff regarding broadcast vs. unicast and how to handle
the broadcast bit and all that is "SHOULD", not "MUST", in RFC 1541

Thanks!
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Mark Sirota, Network Systems Engineer
University of Pennsylvania, Information Systems and Computing
msirota@isc.upenn.edu, 215/573-7214

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