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- From: lidl@rodan.UU.NET (Kurt J. Lidl)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: TFTP Broadcasts
- Date: 27 Aug 1992 18:38:47 -0400
- Organization: AlterNet -- Falls Church, Virginia, USA
- Lines: 27
- Message-ID: <17jlhnINN4g7@rodan.UU.NET>
- References: <1992Aug18.050759.6934@microplex.com> <CKD.92Aug18115535@loiosh.eff.org>
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- In article <CKD.92Aug18115535@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- >Fred> == Fred Fierling <fff@microplex.com>
- >
- > Fred> How pervasive is [all 1s] broadcasting? Anyone care to hazard a
- > Fred> guess as to what percentage of systems support it? Are there any
- > Fred> big time vendors that do NOT support it?
- >
- >SunOS defaults to using net.0 as the broadcast address (although I
- >believe SunOS 5, aka Solaris 2.0, does finally get this right).
- >
- >It allows you to change it, but it's annoying.
-
- Well, sorta. For older generation sun machines, that need to boot
- diskless off an ethernet, if you watch closely, you will see it broadcast
- to the all zero's address. (Cast in ROM, I think.)
-
- For machines that are capable of booting Solaris 2.0, (ie SPARC), I
- think they all try all ones when diskless booting...
-
- Once they are up and running, it is a snap to change the broadcast
- address of the machines...
-
- -Kurt
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