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Re: identify hostname


From: jzeeff () verio net (Jon Zeeff)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:41:18 -0500 (EST)


Who is willing to write a tool to do broadcast address discovery and 
access-list generation?  Ideally with a config file that would allow 
one to avoid serious self smurfing (ie, ranges to check and patterns
to assume are broadcasts without trying them).  

Filtering broadcast addresses is pretty ugly. Consider that a single Class
C broken down into /30's can have 64 broadcast addresses. Maybe if it was
just filtering your own assigned subnets, it would be possible, but this
also applies to customer-subnetted broadcast addresses, so you'd have to
coordinate your filter with every one of your customers, every time they
change subnets. Not impossible, but pretty close.



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