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- From: art@acc.com (Art Berggreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: IP Directed Broadcast
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.161214.4160@acc.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:12:14 GMT
- References: <11132@crackers.clearpoint.com>
- Organization: ACC, Advanced Computer Communications
- Lines: 29
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- In article <11132@crackers.clearpoint.com> martillo@stars.clearpoint.com (Joachim Martillo) writes:
- >On reading RFC 1009 Requirements for Internet Gateways, one finds in
- >section 4.4 on page 34. An Internet gateway is permitted, but not
- >required, to filter out directed broadcasts destined for any of its
- >locally-connected networks.
- >
- >If a networks gateways do not filter IP broadcasts and that network
- >has active loops in its subnet topology, and if someone extern to the
- >network sends a directed broadcast to that network with a TTL of 255,
- >the target network could easily suffer a major broadcast storm.
- >
- >Such a storm would seem a bad thing. Maybe I am missing something,
- >but perhaps filterning directed broadcasts should be obligatory rather
- >than optional.
- >
- >Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami
-
- Get the latest Router Requirements Draft from any internet-drafts server.
- This will eventually replace RFC1009.
-
- "All Subnets" broadcasts have been "deprecated" and multicasts encouraged.
- The rule has become: if an IP packet arrives via media broadcast, it is
- never forwarded (ignoring IP Multicast for the moment). Thus if an All
- Subnets broadcast is forwarded until it reaches the first subnet of the
- target network, it may be exploaded there, but will not propagate to the
- remaining subnets. This is especially important with new routing protocols
- which allow discontiguous subnets.
-
- Art
-