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		yrro on Oct 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 40th Anniversary of the Ethernet I wonder why the broadcast address was changed from being all zeroes to all ones in Ethernet II (is that the right term for the Ethernet we all use today?)

alblue on Oct 4, 2020 [–]

There are actually two papers; Ethernet 1.0 and 2.0, but the ones linked above were for the <256 draft implementation.

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