[c-nsp] security

[Chris Gauthier]

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 <maillist at webjogger.net> 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:>
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