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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "David A. Panariti" <panariti@mediaone.net>
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Subject: 4.5R and explicit broadcast routes
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<<On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:51:34 -0500 (EST), "David A. Panariti" <panariti@mediaone.net> said:

> Unfortunately, all I have is a binary for the app, so I can't figure
> out what they are doing.  I don't even know if making a TCP connection
> to 255.255.255.255 is legal.

It is utterly, 100% bogus.

> Does anyone know where this explicit broadcast route is being added,
> and why? Is there a knob to turn it off?

The route is created automatically in order to speed up recognition of
broadcast addresses on machines with many interfaces.

-GAWollman


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