Michael K. Sanders wrote:
|implemented (is it required by any standards?), but I don't think
|relying on a broadcast is a good idea.

IIrc this is a multicast to either the all-hosts-on-this-subnet
(224.0.0.1) or all-routers-on-this-subnet (224.0.0.2) address.

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