I've also seen directed broadcast needed for remote management of some thin client platforms across subnets.
-Vinny > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cisco-nsp- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Gauthier > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] security > > 1. Thanks for the awesome explanations. I've been dealing with these > terms for a while, but had not really grasped them too hard until now. > (To be honest, I had not looked them up in a while either.) > > 2. When would a directed broadcast be useful? Not only for WOL, but > for some disk imaging software (e.g. Symantec Ghost), directed > broadcasts is a way of pushing an image to multiple clients > simultaneously. Ghost specifically offers the choice of multicast, > directed broadcast, and unicast delpoyment via radio buttons on the > options page before a "ghostcasting" session is started. > > Chris G. > > > Tim Durack wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Adam Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >> Thanks for helping me brush up on basic networking! :) > >> > >> Under what circumstances would directed broadcast actually be a > useful > >> feature? > >> > > > > Wake-on-LAN. That's the only reason we permit directed-broadcasts. > > > > Tim:> > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
