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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: How to limit broadcasts between expensively connected networks?
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Date: 13 Jul 90 17:37:50 GMT
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If the routers in use are actually 4bsd Unix systems, all the ones
I've ever seen forward both RIP and RWHO packets out all their
interfaces (SLIP included) by default.  I don't recall anything in
the manual pages which indicate that either broadcast can be
restricted to a subset of the attached interfaces, but my memory
isn't quite perfect, and I havn't read the source...

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