Graeme Fowler wrote:
> The broadcast address in Windows networking is extremely important, as
> it's the way the different servers/workstations advertise their presence
> into the 'Network Neighborhood'.
IIRC, master browser elections are also handled by each machine hurling insane
quantities of packets onto the broadcast address until one machine eventually
wins (probably based on which machine manage to flood the segment faster).
Domain controllers also seem to use broadcast occasionally to talk to each
other; this strikes me as being equivalent to a company board meeting being
held by email, and each director sending his replies to "all staff".
Surely once the PDC and the secondaries have discovered each other they ought
to talk direct? Wierdness.
-- Regards,Seanie seanie@wdcc.org.uk [8A8FA6DE] *== A rock ----> me <---- A hard place ==*
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