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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: Howto: Sun 3's as X Terminal 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 1996 11:39:33 PST."
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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 05:55:29 +0000
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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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 habi
t
> >> 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.

It should have been.

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