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- From: thoff@netxwest.com (Todd Hoff)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
- Subject: More on broadcast problem
- Message-ID: <9301081857.AA11564@cinnabar.netx.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 18:57:24 GMT
- Sender: vxwexplo@lbl.gov
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
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- NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
- Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov
-
- With the help of the Sniffer we pinned down why IP broadcasts
- are not being recieved. It appears when using a subnetmask that
- differs from netmask then broadcast IP addresses are not translated
- to the broadcast ethernet address.
-
- With:
- 1. IP Address = 144.10.5.33
- 2. Mask = 0xffff0000
- 3. Subnetmask = 0xffffff00
- 4. Broadcast Address= 144.10.5.255
-
- The ethernet address of the packet goes to our router, not the
- expected broadcast ethernet address.
-
- With:
- 1. IP Address = 144.10.5.33
- 2. Mask = 0xffff0000
- 3. Subnetmask = 0xffff0000
- 4. Broadcast Address= 144.10.255.255
-
- The broadcast works fine, the ethernet address is all 1s as expected.
- The suggestion here is that code resolving IP addresses isn't looking
- at the subnet mask. Is seems the broadcast IP address is not recognized
- as such and is forwarded to the router where the router
- of course will not forward the broadcast.
-
- BTW, various manipulations of the route tables had no effect.
-
- I suppose this is a bug.
-