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- Subject: Re: Broadcasting and Subnets
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.073037.19511@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Graeme Moffat)
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:30:37 GMT
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- fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
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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.
- >Wow, I thought I'd seen all the bad side effects of mixing subnets on the
- >same cable. What kind of systems are these?
-
- - RS6000 (AIX 3.1 and 3.2) It's my gateway machine, and is correctly
- configured, as far as I am aware. I can stop this behaviour in the other
- non-gateway ones by turning ip forwarding & redirects off, (which are on by
- default, in a deliberate design decision by IBM, despite rfc 1122). AIX
- claims to run BSD 4.3 & now 4.4 networking code.
- - Acorn running unix
- - From memory, I think one was a Sun clone
- - Many were PC's (inferred from the MAC addresses), OS unknown
- Unfortunately (well, fortunately, really :) I can no longer see most since
- we have started to break our net up with cisco's.
-
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- Graeme Moffat g.moffat@aukuni.ac.nz \ Time wastes us all,
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- School of Engineering, Ph: +64-9-737-999 x8384 / But we waste time,
- University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, NZ \ so time & we are quits
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