broadcast udp packets ...

[Wes Peters]

On Friday 11 July 2003 14:09, Don Lewis wrote:
> 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 route.

I forgot to say "on all interfaces which have broadcast enabled," which 
effectively weeds out the loopback interface amongst others.

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Wes Peters                                              wes at softweyr.com