Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:34:57 -0500 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
This seems like a strange design decision for windows 2000, if
Strange? Stupid is more like it.
it's real. But, if it *is* true, the answer to your question "is this kind of filtering common" might be a strong "yes", at least in the Microsoft-populated extreme network edge.
Wouldn't surprise me. IIRC, Win95 (NT? 98?) would send bcast messages to the classful broadcast address, regardless of subnet mask. Anyone have a Win2000 machine handy to confirm or deny? Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.