Having problems with limited broadcast

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 7 08:40:51 PST 2009


Peter Steele wrote:
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> Based on the discussion in the link above, it doesn't seem like the
> problem was entirely resolved by the patches mentioned in this thread.
> Has anything been done since this discussion took place. Surely there
> must be a way to get limited broadcast to work under FreeBSD.
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You will need to go to the pcap layer to send limited broadcasts w/o any 
IPv4 addresses configured in a BSD stack for now. If you have an IP on 
the interface, you can just use IP_ONESBCAST.

thanks
BMS
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