<<On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 11:36:38 -0400, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I just want to ask around in case I turned out to be doing
> something incredibly evil.
Directed Broadcast is generally discouraged, and a BCP was published
not too long ago officially deprecating it (updating the router
requirements to require such a function to default to `off').
More general forwarding of broadcasts is impossible without an
appropriate routing protocol; all such protocols currently in
existence are targeted at multicast, and not broadcast, since
multicast is the correct, officially-sanctioned way to make such
transmissions. (You'll note that multicast is a mandatory element of
IPv6; IPv6's analogue to ARP uses it instead of interrupting every
machine on the network.)
-GAWollman
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