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From: dab@ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: re: default broadcast address
Message-ID: <8807121537.AA01078@PTT.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 12 Jul 88 15:37:23 GMT
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>> First, try to follow the robustness principle: hosts should accept
>> AS BROADCASTS all the possible (i.e., legal or formerly legal)
>> broadcast addresses.

Hosts should also accept AS BROADCASTS any packet that was sent to the
link layer broadcast (and mulitcast???) address regardless of what the
IP address was.
						David Bridgham