broadcast address

[Barry Margolin]

In article <411 at brchh104.bnr.ca> benson at odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
>Anyone know why sun, in 4.1, is still broadcasting on the obsolete .0
>address instead of .255?

I've assumed that they maintain this incorrect default for backward
compatibility.  If a site adds a 4.1 system to a network containing older
releases they shouldn't be forced to reconfigure all the other systems.

Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar at think.com
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