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- Subject: Re: Broadcasting and Subnets
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.052037.19896@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat)
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:20:37 GMT
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- barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
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- >One issue that's not raised in that section is the situation when multiple
- >IP subnets are on the same link. The choice between limited broadcasts and
- >subnet broadcasts affects which group of machines will receive the
- >broadcasts, and may affect the behavior of the protocols you use.
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- What I have observed in this situation (multiple subnets on same physical
- cable) is that *many* hosts don't recognise x.y.z.255 as a broadcast on
- subnet x.y.z when they are in subnet x.y.w, and respond by resending the
- packet to MAC address 00FFBAD1DEAD, and an ICMP redirect to the original
- sender! Lovely.
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- Graeme Moffat g.moffat@aukuni.ac.nz \ Time wastes us all,
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