Re: Receiving INADDR_BROADCAST packets

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 08/24/03

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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, wes@freebsd.org

    On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:30:18PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
    > I probably wouldn't need to bind sockets to each interface if I were doing
    > purely broadcast traffic. I'm happy with what works for the time being,
    > however; I may revisit this if I ever implement IPv6 support for the daemon
    > I'm currently hacking. IP_ONESBCAST has saved a lot of trouble for me.

    I take that back, I just rewrote my code to use IP_SETSRCADDR and have
    seen a corresponding shrink in my interface setup and event dispatch code.

    This rocks!

    BMS
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