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From: chris@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au (Chris Chaundy)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Problems with DEBETs and ARP
Message-ID: <1200@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 14 Apr 89 15:43:17 GMT
Organization: The University of Melbourne
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We recently had problems on our extended Ethernet with ARP and found that
it was due to some DEC DEBET bridge(s) having the broadcast address in
their forwarding tables (someone had sent a packet with the broadcast
address as the source address?), and therefore not always broadcasting
broadcasts.  Of course, the bridge should ignore such nonsense.  Is there
a rev. level for DEBETs in which this problem is fixed?

Chris Chaundy

Manager, Networks and Communications,
University Computing Services, The University of Melbourne
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