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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 1995 17:08:26 -0700
From:      Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Palmer), CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-user@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c 
Message-ID:  <199506200008.RAA21204@precipice.shockwave.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 1995 16:50:00 PDT." <199506192350.QAA02166@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> 

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255.255.255.255 is the prefered universal broadcast address for subnets,
so that you don't NEED to know the network & netmask, also 255.255.255.255
is not a valid unicast address anyway...so the long and the short is that
I agree with you that we shouldn't do checks, since everytime someone
from CSRG did one, they typically fucked it up.



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