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From: karn@epic.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: KA9Q, RIP, IP broadcast to 255 instead of 0
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Date: 12 Feb 91 04:21:43 GMT
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In article <9102112108.AA28730@tilde>, rjberke@skvax1.csc.ti.com
(Richard Berke - TI Data Communications) writes:
|> I notice KA9Q (901130) sending his RIPs to IP destination 0's,
|> rather than the 255's in my IF CONFIG control statement.
|> I can't seem to get him to use 255.

(blush). Actually, many of the parameters to the ifconfig statement
are not yet implemented; the broadcast address is one of them.

The broadcast address used by RIP is specified in the "rip add"
command;
you also have to make sure that there's an entry in the ARP table
that will map this address to the proper link broadcast address
(i.e., ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff for Ethernet).

Someday I'll clean all this stuff up...

Phil