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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:	FDDI - The Next Generation

Moderator:	NETCAD::STEFANI

Created:	Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2259
Total number of notes:	8590

47.0. "Broadcast/Multicast" by SDSVAX::SWEENEY (Patrick Sweeney in New York) Mon Apr 02 1990 18:44

    There is a ETHERNET broadcast address FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF, and half of the
    48-bit ETHERNET address space is allocated to multicast addresses.
    
    Does FDDI have a similar data link layer broadcast or multicast
    capability?

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47.1 Same addressing applies. KONING::KONING NI1D @FN42eq Tue Apr 03 1990 14:34 6

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47.1	Same addressing applies.	KONING::KONING	NI1D @FN42eq	`Tue Apr 03 1990 14:34`	6
	Yes. The same addresses apply to Ethernet and to FDDI. (In fact, the "Ethernet" addresses apply to all the 802 family LANs in theory. In practice, 802.5 implementations have screwed it up horribly. But FDDI has managed to avoid those screwups.) paul

Yes.  The same addresses apply to Ethernet and to FDDI.  (In fact, the
"Ethernet" addresses apply to all the 802 family LANs in theory.  In
practice, 802.5 implementations have screwed it up horribly.  But FDDI
has managed to avoid those screwups.)

	paul