[11536] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: disabling directed broadcasts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Thu Jul 31 17:33:06 1997
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:28:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quadrunner.com>
To: Ran Atkinson <rja@corp.home.net>
cc: cisco-nsp@cic.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <970731110447.ZM11915@borg.eos.home.net>
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Ran Atkinson wrote:
==>If there is some corner case I've missed that requires forwarding
==>of directed broadcast packets, it would be useful for that specific
==>case to be enumerated _in detail, in public_.
There is one case... In the case of a remote server broadcasting into a
NetBIOS over IP environment where there's not a WINS server. (Yes, I know
it's remote, but I've used it before... =)
/cah
