broadcast udp packets ...

[Sreekanth]

Couldn't it be done just by executing the following command ?
#route add 255.255.255.255 -net 255.255.255.255 -ifp [primary interface]

I know it is kind of crude but it works in my case :-)

Sreekanth


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Don Lewis
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:10 PM
> To: wes at softweyr.com
> Cc: mgrooms at shrew.net; freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: broadcast udp packets ...
> 
> 
> On 11 Jul, Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> 
> > What we observed on our embedded system is the packet gets 
> sent on all
> > attached interfaces, with dest IP 255.255.255.255, and a 
> src IP of the 
> > local address that has the default route.  If there isn't a default 
> > route, sending to 255.255.255.255 fails with "no route to host."
> > 
> > This is bogus, so I propose to change it to a special case, where
> > packets sent to 255.255.255.255 will be sent on each attached 
> > interface, with src IP of the interface "primary" address.  
> Does this 
> > sound reasonable?  Should it work without a default route?  
> (I think it 
> > should, the special case of the all-call broadcast 
> shouldn't even go 
> > into rtalloc.)
> 
> This sounds good.  I think it should work without a default 
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