Jailed Samba not getting broadcasts

[Ian Smith]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, [windows-1252] Nejc Škoberne wrote:

 > > what netmask does ifconfig show for this IP?
 > 
 > Host:
 > 
 > rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
 >          options=8<VLAN_MTU>
 >          ether 00:40:f4:27:7e:a8
 >          inet 192.168.15.198 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255
 >          inet 192.168.15.201 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.15.201
 >          media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 >          status: active
 > 
 > Jail:
 > 
 > rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
 >          options=8<VLAN_MTU>
 >          ether 00:40:f4:27:7e:a8
 >          inet 192.168.15.201 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.15.201
 >          media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 >          status: active
 > 
 > Hmm, I guess this is the reason why Samba doesn't see the broadcasts - the mask
 > in the jail is /32, not /24. I read somewhere this cannot be changed?

I can't help wondering what would happen if you assigned the single jail
IP to be the subnet's broadcast address, in this case 192.168.15.255 ?

cheers, Ian