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> Really dead addresses are real problem: it means that every
> 1 min your host tries to resolve 204.178.41.255.
> Well, it also will expire after normal cache timeout.
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> What's about these unexpected broadcast addresses, it is real bug,
> though it is harmless. Your router will never forward such packets,
> if they are received as link level broadcasts, but routing cache
> does not know that they are broadcasts and tries to maintain
> path to them. It is harmless, but wrong. I'll fix it, thank you
> for information.
>
> Alexey Kuznetsov.
>
Thanks. It's like living in a glass house. Once I start throwing stones
at Micro$oft, it would be nice if Linux was a "perfect" network neighbor.
I found a tiny wart.
Cheers,
DJ
Richard B. Johnson
Analogic Corporation
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.44 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to stay on the trailing edge of technology.
Linux : Engineering tool
Windows : Typewriter