Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:25:19 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Strange Network behavior |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > address is 204.178.40.0, netmask is 255.255.248.0. Why would it be > > ARPing a broadcast address? In principle, with a netmask of 255.255.248.0, > > the broadcast address should be 204.178.47.255, but many machines use > > the broadcast address of each 'C' subnet, i.e., 40.255, 41.255, 42.255, etc. > > So you have your machine misconfigured. Or they have theirs wrong. One of > the two. Either they have their netmask wrong OR you should have yours as > .255 and route to the other networks via a router or by having alias > addresses to each network
Well no. Alexy knows the problem and is going to fix it some time. One of the "magic" addresses he keeps in the APR-Cache should be disregarded by some code at another level.
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