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From: stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: broadcast address
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 20 Mar 90 14:46:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 87, message 8

The subject of broadcast storms has come up again in another mailing list
(tcp-ip).  Sun still (sunos4.0.3) seems to distribute systems with 0 in
the host part as the default broadcast address.  Why?  Long ago the
internet community seems to have settled on all 1's in the host part for a
broadcast address.  True, if we don't like the default, we can ifconfig
broadcast address, but why does the default continue to differ from the
"standard"?

Thanks,

Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil