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> You will need to go to the pcap layer to send limited broadcasts w/o
any=20
> IPv4 addresses configured in a BSD stack for now. If you have an IP on

> the interface, you can just use IP_ONESBCAST.

Yes, I can send broadcasts if my box has an IP. Since we are writing our
own DHCP-like service though this isn't an option for us, so pcap seems
to be the route to go...