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To: "Neil C. Jensen" <njensen@salsa.habaneros.com>
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Subject: Re: strange broadcast gateway on netstat 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Oct 96 05:30:01 PDT."
             <01BBBE47.BEA59A20@jalapeno.habaneros.com> 
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:02:31 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <01BBBE47.BEA59A20@jalapeno.habaneros.com> you write:
>Why would I be getting "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff" instead of the proper ethernet addr
>  ess or a link #? 

ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff *is* the broadcast ethernet address.  -current just
fills in the entries that 2.1.5 left blank, so that you can tell what
ethernet address it is actually using.

  Bill