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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:27:10 -0400
From:      Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: forwarding broadcast
Message-ID:  <20010809122710.F9519@enterprise.spock.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010809092010.M69994-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:20:55AM -0700
References:  <20010809113638.A9519@enterprise.spock.org> <20010809092010.M69994-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:20:55AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> 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.

It would be nice if all applications supported multicast.  It would be even 
nicer if I could figure out why mrouted isn't doing what it's supposed to 
do on this machine, but that's a whole different problem...  I might ask 
for help on that one if I still can't figure it out after some debugging...

-Jon

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