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From: brunner@SPAM.ISTC.SRI.COM (Thomas Eric Brunner)
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Subject: Re: remote broadcasts
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Date: 14 Mar 88 02:44:00 GMT
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Steve, Jon, list,

	Jon wrote that a directed broadcast "caused a broadcast storm
on our ethernet effectively bring down the net." In the 18 months that
I've had a largish part of SRINET to watch, storms have come and gone
due to local broadcast address mismatches, and broken cable. I have on
occasion seen directed broadcasts, which didn't do as Jon describes -
trigger a broadcast storm.
	...I've just spoken to Jon, it appears that the directed broadcasts
I saw here (SRI) from UCSC some many moons ago, were mentioned to him
by our hardware facility manager as the/a cause of one-or-more of our
network failures in the winter. This is wrong, so I'll make the informational
corrections locally. Unless anyone has anything else to add, the "directed
causes network meltdowns" discussion is at its end.

Eric