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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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