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From: 08071TCP@MSU.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ICMP's & IP src addrs
Message-ID: <8809171435.AA26289@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 88 15:18:25 GMT
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>And I am sure that someones bridge will then decide that they know
>where "the broadcast address" lives and stop forwarding it.
>I have seen this (anti-social) behavior in DEC Lanbridges and it
>does not bode well for the network until someone resets the beast.
>Takes a while to find if you aren't looking for it.

Now wait a minute....It's one thing to reply to the local IP broadcast
address - it's another thing to use the Ethernet broadcast address as
your source address!  DEC Lanbridges don't look at anything higher than
that.  They should ignore multicast/broadcast addresses as a source
address (although I don't really know if they do).

I have enough problems with the ARP storms on my network from good (and
also from incorrect) broadcast addresses.

Doug Nelson
Michigan State University