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Re: Win95 won't forget old IP address

Christopher Davis <chr+@andrew.cmu.edu> Thu, 13 June 1996 04:27 UTC

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Excerpts from netdev.dhcp-v4: 12-Jun-96 Re: Win95 won't forget old .. by
Mark Sirota@isc.upenn.ed 
> 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

1541 doesn't say this, the current draft on isi.edu says "MUST".

I don't know when Cisco started supporting the broadcast bit, but I know
IOS 10.3 and above do.


Chris Davis
Network Development
Carnegie Mellon University

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