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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 1995 23:36:01 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: More ancient IP broadcast cruft to be removed
Message-ID:  <199512230636.XAA21503@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <9512201756.AA21859@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Dec 20, 95 12:56:53 pm

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> I believe that this code is a waste of time.  If the user wants to
> accept broadcasts on the host-all-zeros address, then she should
> configure the interface for that broadcast address.  (Using the
> standard broadcast address would not work to communicate with old
> machines anyway, so this hack doesn't really gain one anything.)

Gatewaying old and new broadcast formats on the same physical wire?

Like a new net with old Apollo Domain systems?

Any chance of #ifdef'ing it?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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