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Subject: Re: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff in netstat -r
In-Reply-To: <96Dec2.113555pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Dec 2, 96 11:35:51 am"
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
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> In message <199612021748.SAA02955@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> you write:
> >This is obviously the broadcast address. What makes me think is that
> >I see this only on that one machine (running samba/WINS, BTW).
> 
> Is that the only machine that has sent a broadcast recently?

No. A 3.0 machine (running as a router and WINS (samba) server)
should have sent them out too but doesn show this in the routes.

> 
> Is that the only machine with an if_ether.c newer than rev 1.27
> (Feb. 5, 1996)?

No. The machine it was happening on has:
*      @(#)if_ether.c  8.1 (Berkeley) 6/10/93
 * $Id: if_ether.c,v 1.35 1996/11/15 18:50:31 fenner Exp $ 
 */   

There are a lot of other machine built with that version of if_ether.c
in the net. Possibly only the one mentioned (router/samba WINS)
might have sent broadcasts recently as well.


> 
> I think this is probably to be expected.
> 
>   Bill

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de