[KLUG Members] some network questions

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I am a few days behind, but the really screwy thing is that this WILL 
> work. If Windows followed the RFCs it wouldnt, but Windows will somehow 
> still talk to a machine on a different subnet on the same "wire" even 
> though its default route doesnt work. I am not sure if this is still 
> true in XP++ but, it was before for sure. This leads to much confusion 
> amongst people about issues very much like this.
> Just a note. :)

If you are on the same wire and browsing is enabled then Windows will
work more-or-less in spite of many goobered parameters.  And you might
not even be using TCP/IP for all communications, depending on how it is
configured.