[KLUG Members] some network questions

[Chester Wisniewski]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>>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. :)
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>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.
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This is not what I am talking about, it would allow you to ping from 
192.168.3.X to 10.0.0.1 on the same wire without routes. Its simply must 
fall to arp broadcasting if it doesnt know how to get somewhere.