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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: filtering / active ethernet components
Message-ID: <717@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 24 Nov 89 01:17:39 GMT
References: <8911232033.AA09847@sneezy.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
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cpw%sneezy@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood) writes:
>... 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.

	an up to date set of ROMs from DEC will fix this bug.

>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.

	my recommendation is to ignore your own recommendation, Phil!
	would you recommend living in a shoe, too?  
	ethernet's distance limits are a royal pain; 
	multimedia/ethernet brouterateways are very useful components!


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