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From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Broadcast on SUN networking
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 18 Apr 89 23:40:51 GMT
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>...Sun networking does not
>support broadcast and we are not suppose to change the operating system.
>Has anyone worked on this problem? Any ideas, suggestions and refrences
>are welcome. Thanks.

Sun certainly does support broadcasting, see the NIT interface, there was
a version of ProxyArp distributed a while back which could serve as a
model (I had distributed one earlier but the part you'd be interested is
in the proprietary source code, it was derived from Sun's rarpd server.)

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	-Barry Shein, Software Tool & Die

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