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- From: ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH)
- Subject: Re: Generic IP address
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.102210.7015W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
- Sender: ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH)
- Organization: T I H / T I S I P
- References: <1993Jan26.185514.19852@walter.bellcore.com>
- Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15 1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:22:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.185514.19852@walter.bellcore.com>, pietro@nova.bellcore.com
- (Pietro Manzoni) writes:
-
- >Is there anybody who knows if it's possible to send a message specifing a
- >generic address.
- >
- >I'm not talking of multicast, I'm just wondering if it could be possible
- >to send a datagram without specifing a destination address.
- >
- >This type of datagram should be interpreted as: the first host that receives
- >the datagram is the destination host...
-
- How would any host know that it was the first one? The problem is most
- obvious on a broadcasting net, such as Ether - *all* hosts would believe
- that they were the first one.
-
- But even on a point-to-point net: On which link connection should the message
- be sent? A single random one? Or on all available (which is functionally
- identical to broadcasting)?
-
- Sorry, I do not understand the semantics of you suggested "first host gets it"
- address.
-