Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:04:14 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: broadcast udp packets ... Message-ID: <20030701220414.GA94127@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200307012146.h61LkXOW001888@hole.shrew.net> References: <3F01DA79.4080709@mac.com> <200307012146.h61LkXOW001888@hole.shrew.net>
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:46:33PM +0000, Matthew Grooms wrote: > > In any case, I wrote a quick little program to generate a broadcast > message for use with testing the relay daemon ( I got tired of waiting for > bootp requests to be picked up by my cable modem as a test case ). > Unfortunately, I can never get the test program generate an all-routes > broadcast, they always come out as network directed broadcasts. There's a sleazy way. I was told it by Irix support in 1994, and if I'm not mistaken dhclient uses it still today. Ifconfig your interface with an alias of 255.0.0.1/8. Told you it was sleazy. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
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