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Old 31st March 2009
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
The high-level address is the broadcast address ... and while broadcast IP is pretty much a dead-thing-from-before-the-Internet, broadcast may be enabled and used, so the broadcast address is still reserved.
Thanks sport.
I did notice that OpenBSD does use the default broadcast address - ifconfig shows that.
I expect that Theo will peruse RFCs night and day to find obscure ways to torture me.
And so he should.

Best wishes.

BTW, I am almost ready for my idjoot questions on myname ...
Oh, and why I don't have a route through my gateway ...
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