I dont see any point in using broadcasts with TCP cuz u have a TCP
connection between two devices only ..
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, August 27, 2000 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: About ip helper-address
>Actually, that was my questions too. I am not sure if all broadcast are
>based on udp instead of TCP, like all multicast are based on udp to avoice
>unnecessary retransmission. Maybe broadcast is the same case. Is my
>understanding correct?
>
>Cisco has a "ip forward-protocol dns", is it true that it is designed for
>diskless workstation, say the DNS server ip add is not configured and need
>broadcast dns query request? I think normally DNS ip address is already
>pre-configured, so the DNS query should be a unicast instead of broadcast.
>
>
>
>""Howard C. Berkowitz"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> >I know this is for udp broadcast forward, but is there anyway to forward
>tcp
>> >broadcast? If there is, what scenarios should we use tcp/udp broadcast
>> >forward?
>> >Thanks
>> >
>> >
>> What have you seen that produces TCP broadcasts?
>>
>> As a study question, why would it be unlikely to have a broadcast
>> mechanism based on TCP?
>>
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