Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:39:33 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Cc: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net>, hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Howto: Sun 3's as X Terminal Message-ID: <96Apr2.113936pst.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Mar 1996 16:09:46 PST." <Pine.NEB.3.92.960330185544.11704D-100000@zap.io.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.92.960330185544.11704D-100000@zap.io.org>you write: >> NOTE: Since Sun 3's use old 4.2BSD networking code, they have the bad habit >> of broadcasting on .0, not .255 > We've got 3/50's, 3/60's and 3/280's here running the Xkernel and >our boot server is using .255 as the broadcast address without any >apparent trouble. I bet your boot server is running code earlier than src/sys/netinet/ip_input.c 1.33 Thu Dec 21 21:12:22 1995 by wollman Diffs to 1.32 Delete old-style-broadcast-address compatibility cruft in IP input path. If users want to use the old-style broadcast addresses, they will have to currectly configure their systems. I wonder if this should be made an option for those who want to run boot servers for old suns. Bill
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