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Subject: RE: Having problems with limited broadcast
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> The folk who point out that link-local addresses could be used, have
an=20
> interesting suggestion which might work for you.

It's definitely interesting, but it is very likely that some of our
customers will want to be able to set their own IP ranges and not be
limited to 169.254/16. So we need a more generic solution.