From: Jerry (phase90@comcast.net)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 23:03:58 GMT-3
Hello,
This is the all-zero broadcast. Apparently in the old
days - back when tcp / ip
was first developed, some operating systems used zeroes instead of ones as
the broadcast address.
If by some chance there was a machine like this on a lan connected to a
Cisco router, there is an option in the configuration-register which lets
the router use all-zeroes for the broadcast address. I
personally have never seen one of these machines but they probably do exist
somewhere.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: love cisco <love_cisco@hotmail.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 8:14 PM
Subject: ip broadcast-address 0.0.0.0
> Could any body explain this to me? What it !0ip broadcast-address
0.0.0.0!1
> here used for?
> I can understand ip broadcast-address 255.255.255.255. But why 0.0.0.0?
>
> Interface Ethernet 0
> ip broadcast-address 0.0.0.0
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Cb7QOBTX MSN Explorer: http://explorer.msn.com/lccn/
> .
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