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   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   SpreadTooThin  wrote:   
   > > Is that perhaps one of the reasons that ifconfig tends to report the   
   > > subnet-specific/directed broadcast address in its output?   
   > >   
   > > rick jones   
   > Now there is a gem.. Yes.. My broadcast address is indeed what I   
   > thought it should be yet...   
   > why aren't my directed broadcast happening.  Must be my router.   
      
   IIRC by default at least, _no_ IP datagrams received in a broadcast   
   Ethernet frame are to be passed by a router.   
      
   rick jones   
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