From owner-freebsd-net Thu Dec 5 11:41: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E283437B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:41:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-out1.apple.com (mail-out1.apple.com [17.254.0.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B4843ECD for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgraessley@apple.com) Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gB5Jf6w00738 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:41:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:40:44 -0800 Received: from apple.com (graejo.apple.com [17.202.40.111]) by scv1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gB5Jf6u18558 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:41:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:41:05 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: broadcast over loopback From: Joshua Graessley To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <7E2B1140-0889-11D7-9DEC-000393760260@apple.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is there a reason that the broadcast flag is not set on the loopback interface? It seems like it might be useful to allow applications that use broadcast to continue to work even when loopback is the only interface. -josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message