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- From: tli@skat.usc.edu (Tony Li)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: TFTP Broadcasts
- Date: 18 Aug 1992 00:08:04 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Sender: tli@skat.usc.edu (Tony Li)
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- References: <1992Aug18.050759.6934@microplex.com>
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- In article <1992Aug18.050759.6934@microplex.com> fff@microplex.com (Fred Fierling) writes:
- In RFC 906 (Bootstrap loading using TFTP) it is written:
-
- [**] 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...
-
- 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?
-
- If it helps, "all ones" broadcasts are the default on cisco routers.
- I would estimate that 95% of our customers use the default broadcast
- address.
-
- Tony
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- Tony Li - Escapee from the USC Computer Science Department tli@usc.edu
- The net is not what it seems.
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