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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
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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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
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