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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:30:31 -0200 (BRDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Dennis Bjorklund <dennisb@cs.chalmers.se>
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:

> I'm trying to turn of the broadcast flag for a network card. But
> I can't, why??

Because ethernet is a broadcast medium (in contrast
to P-t-P media)

> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:BA:6E:76:63  
>           inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

Rik
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