Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!gamiddleton
From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: default broadcast address
Message-ID: <19803@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 88 02:41:25 GMT
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Reply-To: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR]
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This is an important question for us, as we plan to convert our campus to a
new set of addresses very soon (next week).  Once we decide on a broadcast
address, it will be difficult to change our minds.  I had been planning on
using the current 4.3 default of (I believe) {net,subnet,-1}, but recent
comments seem to indicate that 0xffffffff may have advantages for diskless
machines trying to discover their identities.  More last-minute advice would
be appreciated; after next Sunday, there will be no going back for us...

 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo Institute for Computer Research
						gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu