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From: goeran@ae.chalmers.se (Goran Bengtson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: RE: DEC LAN Bridge's learning the broadcast address
Message-ID: <81@ae.chalmers.se>
Date: 3 Nov 88 18:49:00 GMT
References: <8810312247.AA17706@decwrl.dec.com>
Organization: Dept. of Applied Electronics. Chalmers Univ. of Technology.
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In article <8810312247.AA17706@decwrl.dec.com>, mitton@nac.dec.com
  (Dave Mitton) writes:

> 	This problem was found previously and fixed in the V1.0 ROMs, but
> managed to become un-fixed in V2.0.  The V2.x microcode contains other fixes
> and improvements (including LAN Traffic Monitor support) so it is worthwhile
> to upgrade.  The version number can be observed with an RBMS command;
> READ BRIDGE CHARACTERISTICS (so I was told).

We also got the information (from DEC) that the problem was fixed in
V1.0 so we "downgraded" some V2.0 bridges.  That didn't help us.  The
problem IS present in both V1.0 and V2.0 (sorry DEC). 

Let us hope that V2.1 really fix it...
-- 
Goran Bengtson				Email:	goeran@ae.chalmers.se
Dept. of Applied Electronics
Chalmers Univ. of Technology		Phone:  +46 31 721825	(int)
S-412 96 Gothenburg				031 721825	(nat)
Sweden