Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU!dab 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 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 8 >> 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