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From: Y.Murayama@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Yuko Murayama, +44-71-387-7050 ext.3721)
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Subject: a question on FDDI and Token Ring
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Date: 24 Jun 91 16:23:50 GMT
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I have the following question both on FDDI and on Token Ring.

Is it possible to misconfigure a subnet interface with a broadcast or 
multicast address?  Is there any detection mechanism when it is installed?

Yuko Murayama
Dept of Computer Science
University College London