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Re: Reporting Little Blue Men

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sat Jan 24 00:48:27 1998

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:36:13 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980123150953.00ad4b40@mail.usinternet.com>; from sully@mail.usinternet.com on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 03:09:54PM +0000

On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 03:09:54PM +0000, sully@mail.usinternet.com wrote:
> >>How do you prevent packets from your network with a broadcast address,
> since 
> >>what defines a "broadcast" address really depends on the subnet mask?
> >
> >Filter all the blue wavelengths on your FDDI and OC3 interfaces.
> 
> Maybe I don't posses your intellectual prowess.  Please explain what blue
> wavelengths are in regard to this.  Thanks...

No, what you lack is his sense of humor.  :-)

Cheers,
- jra
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