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From: hedrick@aramis.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: default broadcast address
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Date: 9 Jul 88 07:51:57 GMT
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I don't think there is a single answer to the best broadcast address.
In general I recommend 255.255.255.255 on networks where the machines
can deal with it.  On those where they can't, probably {net,0,0} is
the only one that will work.  We're slowly being able to move to
255.255.255.255.