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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: Can CISCO pass broadcast ??
Message-ID: <1991May15.050740.26677@Think.COM>
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Date: Wed, 15 May 91 05:07:40 GMT

In article <3370@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila) writes:
> All this is for remote configuration of NeXT's computers, NeXT sends
>  a broadcast BOOTP to got information of the net, but CISCO don't pass
>  broadcast ( 255.255.255.255 ), so I want to know if it is posible to
>  configurate it to pass broadcasts

Yes, it can.  See the "helper-address" configuration command.  When a
broadcast to one of a specified set of protocols is received, it is
forwarded to the address specified in this command.

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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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