Re: OpenBSD box returning wrong IP

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/31/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:36:22 -0600

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:55:14 -0800, bradmbreer@yahoo.com wrote:

> No it doesn't. What "255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.135
> 192.168.0.135" shows is that to send a broadcast it must be sent out
> its local interface.

Nonsense. Broadcast address for 192.168.0.0/24 is 192.168.0.255 except
with the broken TCP/IP stack in Windows.

The actual gateway address could well be aliased to 10.0.0.1 and Windows
would probably use it in preference to the natively configured address of
192.168.0.254. Been there, done that.

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