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From: think!barmar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: broadcast address
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 29 Nov 90 17:09:08 GMT
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In article <411@brchh104.bnr.ca> benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
>Anyone know why sun, in 4.1, is still broadcasting on the obsolete .0
>address instead of .255?

I've assumed that they maintain this incorrect default for backward
compatibility.  If a site adds a 4.1 system to a network containing older
releases they shouldn't be forced to reconfigure all the other systems.

Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
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