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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:20:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <net@FreeBSD.ORG>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: forwarding broadcast
Message-ID:  <20010809092010.M69994-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010809113638.A9519@enterprise.spock.org>

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I haven't consulted the RFCs either, but, ahem, I thought this was a major
point of netmasks and routers and why multicast was invented- to keep
broadcasts from clogging the world.

-matt




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