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Date:      Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:43:21 -0700
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        John Howie <john@thehowies.com>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Socket bound to 0.0.0.0 never receives broadcasts with non-zero IP source address
Message-ID:  <5525D939.4030506@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <D14B2C1E.3D605%john@thehowies.com>
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On 04/08/2015 16:07, John Howie wrote:
> Have you tried using a static IP address for the host and VM, and
> disabling DHCP? The DHCP client will bind to and use 0.0.0.0 to get an IP
> address. The SO_REUSEADDR rule is that every tuple (proto, src ip, src
> port, dst ip, dst prt) must be unique. I am wondering if that is where
> your problem lies. There might be something that is shortcutting the
> uniqueness of the tuple and just focusing on IP addresses. I would
> validate that for you but I am at 35000¹ right now...
>

Hi John,

I apologize, I actually did have ipfw rules set, and ipfw is the culprit.

Yuri



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