Straw poll - All-interface broadcast/multicast

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 11/18/03

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    Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:02:00 +0000
To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org

    On the subject of hacking the network stack to output broadcast/multicast
    datagrams on all appropriate interfaces:-

     Who would like a switch to do this in the kernel?

     Who would be happier with a userland convenience function to do it?

     Who would rather roll their own?

    I have a diff in the works to do this, 'just for the heck of it', but I am
    very wary of putting anything in the stack 'just for the heck of it' as
    the current IP_ONESBCAST workaround strikes me as 'good enough'.

    BMS
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