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Re: Unusual use of IP Broadcast Address

Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com> Thu, 13 January 1994 19:34 UTC

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To: Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu>
Cc: ietf-hosts@isi.edu, etkind@stowe.mitre.org, deering@parc.xerox.com
Subject: Re: Unusual use of IP Broadcast Address
In-Reply-To: braden's message of Thu, 13 Jan 94 11:12:16 -0800. <199401131912.AA08074@zephyr.isi.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 11:24:27 -0800
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From: Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com>
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> Nice try, but her machines don't recognize IP multicast addresses, either.

How do you know?  At least one commercial IP stack for PCs (the one from
FTP Software) supports IP multicast.

And even if her PC's don't support IP multicast, wouldn't it be preferable
to remedy that omission than to hack the Suns to forward all-ones broadcasts?

Steve

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