[c-nsp] security

[Vinny Abello]

I've also seen directed broadcast needed for remote management of some thin client platforms across subnets.

-Vinny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Chris Gauthier
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:55 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> 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 <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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