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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Path: sparky!uunet!mplex!fff
- From: fff@microplex.com (Fred Fierling)
- Subject: TFTP Broadcasts
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.050759.6934@microplex.com>
- Organization: Microplex Systems Ltd
- Distribution: na
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:07:59 GMT
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- In RFC 906 (Bootstrap loading using TFTP) it is written:
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- [**] Editor's Note: While there is no standard for an Internet wide
- broadcast or multicast address, it is strongly recommended that
- the "all ones" local part of the Internet address be used to
- indicate a broadcast in a particular network. That is, in class...
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- How pervasive is this type of broadcasting? Anyone care to hazard a guess
- as to what percentage of systems support it? Are there any big time vendors
- that do NOT support it?
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