--On 8. oktober 2002 17:54 +0000 Ramkumar Sankar <ramku.sankar@nokia.com> wrote: > besides DHCP, are there any other protocols that use this subnet > directed-broadcast address while sending out IP packets? SMB, the Microsoft-derived filesharing protocol, can be (mis)configured to use subnet-directed broadcasts in order to announce the presence of a server on multiple subnets. that's the only usage I know of.