Re: Generic IP address

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From: Ketil Albertsen,TIH
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:22

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In article <1993Jan26.185514.19852@walter.bellcore.com>, pietro@nova.bellcore.com 
(Pietro Manzoni) writes:

>Is there anybody who knows if it's possible to send a message specifing a
>generic address.
>
>I'm not talking of multicast, I'm just wondering if it could be possible
>to send a datagram without specifing a destination address.
>
>This type of datagram should be interpreted as: the first host that receives
>the datagram is the destination host...

How would any host know that it was the first one? The problem is most
obvious on a broadcasting net, such as Ether - *all* hosts would believe
that they were the first one.

But even on a point-to-point net: On which link connection should the message
be sent? A single random one? Or on all available (which is functionally
identical to broadcasting)?

Sorry, I do not understand the semantics of you suggested "first host gets it"
address.

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