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From: tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Using the 4.2 broadcast addr with 4.3 systems
Message-ID: <362@wcc.oz>
Date: 8 Sep 89 03:24:13 GMT
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In article <3801@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens) writes:
> 	I have to admit I can't think of any (honorable, anyway) uses of
> directed broadcast, but it's not clear to me that there are none.

Running AppleTalk over IP may not be an honorable thing to do to an IP
network, but there's a lot of us doing it. Anyone who finds a better way
of doing this (i.e. eliminating the broadcasts) is going to have a lot
of ROMS to swap :-).

Guess who finds out that a network is using a broken mix of 4.2 1nd 4.3
Broadcasts? Me, and everyone else who tries to use an existing
"working" IP network for AppleTalk networking.

tom@wcc.oz.au