(ASCEND) Directed broadcasts on Ascend

[Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>]

I normally have no complaints/whinings to make, but this is ridiculous.

Nice idea to but options for rejecting directed broadcasts in 6.0.0,
but why are they forwarded (set to Yes) by default?

Here are the two major complaints about smurf attacks:

1. "Not enough vendors provide a knob for directed broadcasts"
2. "The vendors who do turn them on by default, meaning 90% of
    administrators don't remember to turn them off, or don't know
    that they should"

Thanks for taking care of 1.

But while Cisco has the excuse that they need to maintain backward
compatibility, in Ascend's case this is a brand new feature, and a
better default should have been chosen!

-Phil
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