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- From: arons@ash.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Tom Arons)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Broadcasting and Subnets
- Message-ID: <ARONS.92Sep9110310@ash.eecs.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 18:03:10 GMT
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- In-reply-to: graeme@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz's message of 9 Sep 92 07:30:37 GMT
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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
-
- Add to this:
- HP hp-ux prior to 8.0
- HP Xstations B.03.00, fixed in next release
-
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