On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:21:03AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Which is wrong. The server should match against three addresses.
> 
> 1) 10.255.255.255
> 2) 10.x.y.255
> 3) 10.x.y.z
> 
> Since all three are valid. Netmasks don't really make the standard
> addresses illegal.

But the advent of subnetting certainly makes things confusing...  If you
are splitting up net 10 into /24s, ideally you should be able to have
a net 10.255.255.0/24, even though you have no way of knowing whether
10.255.255.255 is your local broadcast or a net-10 directed broadcast.

But yeah...   If you're binding to *.*, then you should get all
broadcasts... including 10.255.255.255, not just the local subnet ones.

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                 hardware works on that OS is amazing."
     -- Jacob Hawley, Sr. Manager, Custom Engineering, Creative Labs