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From: lotto@wjh12.harvard.edu (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ICMP's & IP src addrs
Message-ID: <303@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 88 20:47:20 GMT
References: <23634@hi.unm.edu> <8809151450.AA23101@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <21843@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: lotto@wjh12.UUCP (Jerry Lotto)
Organization: Harvard Univ. Chem. Dept.
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In article <21843@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>As long as I was at it, I decided to look at what a large collection
>of diverse machines did with pings to .255.  I hit our backbone...
>Responding with 128.146.8.255:
>Sun-3/180 (SunOS 3.5.1 [UNIX]).

And I am sure that someones bridge will then decide that they know
where "the broadcast address" lives and stop forwarding it.
I have seen this (anti-social) behavior in DEC Lanbridges and it
does not bode well for the network until someone resets the beast.
Takes a while to find if you aren't looking for it.


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