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From: almquist@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (Philip Almquist)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Broadcast address
Message-ID: <8811270403.AA16412@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 27 Nov 88 02:43:00 GMT
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Jonathan,
> Hi.  At Keele we have a class C ethernet network (192.42.100)
> which has a sequent, 2 microvax and several suns on it.  I would
> like to know what the correct broadcast address for our network
> is.  I have configured it as 192.42.100.255 but the sequent defaults
> to 192.42.100.0.  Which is the correct one to use?

	Neither, actually.  It used to be generally believed that your
choice (192.42.100.255) was correct, but more recent wisdom, as codified in
the forthcoming Host Requirements RFC, says you should use 255.255.255.255.

						Philip