Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:10:44 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Subject: Re: Do UDP broadcasts work in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200901081010.45049.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479DF3@polaris.maxiscale.com> References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479DF3@polaris.maxiscale.com>
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On Tuesday 06 January 2009 17:49:49 Peter Steele wrote:
> Our efforts so far indicate the answer is no, which baffles us. We want
> to send a limited broadcast to 255.255.255.255 but the message never
> arrives. The same code works fine under Linux. Is there a trick for
> doing this kind of thing under FreeBSD?
Did you enable SO_BROADCAST and IP_ONESBCAST on the socket? I remember needing
this on FreeBSD but not on Linux. I know UDP broadcasting works fine, but is
somewhat more involved:
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("130.89.191.255");
addr.sin_port = htons(UDP_PORT_ET);
optval = 1;
if(setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, &optval, sizeof optval) == -1)
err(1, "setsockopt");
optval = 1;
if(setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_IP, IP_ONESBCAST, &optval, sizeof optval) == -1)
err(1, "setsockopt");
const char data[] = "report";
if(sendto(sock, data, sizeof data, 0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, addrlen) == -1)
warn("sendto");
This code will send a packet with destination address 255.255.255.255, on the
interface with broadcast address 130.89.191.255. netintro(4) talks about how
to discover these addresses. SO_ONESBCAST is documented in ip(4), SO_BROADCAST
in getsockopt(4).
--
Pieter de Goeje
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