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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:41:10 -0700, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> said:

> correct (in particular, it should be allowed to send a multicast with
> all-zeroes source address on an interface with no addresses).

It should also be allowed to send a broadcast with a zero source on
such an interface -- something which has been broken since The Dawn of
Time so far as I can tell.

-GAWollman


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