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From: cpw%sneezy@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Smart filtering within a protocol on bridge/router?
Message-ID: <8911232033.AA09847@sneezy.lanl.gov>
Date: 23 Nov 89 20:33:52 GMT
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... packet filtering ...  DEC LanBridges and such filter packets when you
don't want them to.  ARP packets for example, addressed to the broadcast
(all 1's) address get blocked by broken filterware in the LanBridges.

Does anyone know the why of this and the how of fixing.  My recommendation
is to trash these bogus active components and learn to live within the
ethernet specification.

Phil Wood, cpw@lanl.gov