Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: broadcast pings Message-ID: <3508@phri.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 88 02:09:42 GMT References: <8809241430.AA22093@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <5903@columbia.edu> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 14 dupuy@douglass.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) writes: -> Leave the requirement that hosts not respond to broadcast ICMP packets, -> but make a specific exception for gateways [...] if you have a need to -> determine your netmask, you ought to have a gateway on the net (what's -> the point of subnetting a standalone net?). What if your gateway is down? Just because you're cut off from the rest of the world doesn't mean you should be prevented from booting your diskless nodes. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"