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Date:      Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:40:33 +0000
From:      "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Having problems with limited broadcast
Message-ID:  <4964DB01.7000201@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479DF2@polaris.maxiscale.com>
References:  <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479DF2@polaris.maxiscale.com>

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Peter Steele wrote:
> ..
>
> Based on the discussion in the link above, it doesn't seem like the
> problem was entirely resolved by the patches mentioned in this thread.
> Has anything been done since this discussion took place. Surely there
> must be a way to get limited broadcast to work under FreeBSD.
>   

You will need to go to the pcap layer to send limited broadcasts w/o any 
IPv4 addresses configured in a BSD stack for now. If you have an IP on 
the interface, you can just use IP_ONESBCAST.

thanks
BMS
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