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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: bin/981: clnt_broadcast() is not aware of aliases 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/981; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: jc@irbs.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/981: clnt_broadcast() is not aware of aliases 
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:03:28 PST

 In message <199601310231.VAA19105@goombay.irbs.com> you write:
 >>Description:
 >
 >clnt_broadcast() sends a broadcast packet for each aliased address
 >on an interface.
 
 Which is arguably correct, if it sends to the broadcast address for that 
 alias.  (I have an as-yet-uncommitted fix that allows programs to get netmasks 
 and broadcast addresses for aliases).
 
 Of course, then it needs to discard overlapping subnets for the people who use 
 alias to give their machine multiple IP addresses on the same subnet as 
 opposed to giving it addresses on different subnets.
 
   Bill