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From: Mills@UDEL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  remote broadcasts
Message-ID: <8803090107.aa06194@Huey.UDEL.EDU>
Date: 9 Mar 88 06:07:32 GMT
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Jon,

I thought it would be cute if the fuzzball implementation exploded
letter bombs to the broadcast address and they do that. Great fun and
a good headscratcher to figure out what happens when you do that
to a bunch of TCPs. However, it sure turned out to be a Real Bad
Idea to allow that to happen past a gateway. Thus, the fuzzballs
carefully nuke any broadcast-apparent packet that attempts to
transit from one net to another. See RFC-1009.

Dave