From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 2 11:40:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA19380 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA19375 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:40:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14536(15)>; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:39:48 PST Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177475>; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:39:36 -0800 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Brian Tao cc: Philippe Regnauld , hackers Subject: Re: Howto: Sun 3's as X Terminal In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Mar 1996 16:09:46 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:39:33 PST From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Apr2.113936pst.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message 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