Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:12:22 -0800 From: Joshua Graessley <jgraessley@apple.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broadcast over loopback Message-ID: <AC433B63-0BCB-11D7-BD2E-000393760260@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <20021206185424.P19254-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org>
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On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 04:15 PM, Jason Hunt wrote: >> Other platforms out there will handle broadcast on the loopback >> interface. Is it desirable to make changes to the FreeBSD stack to get >> this behavior? > > Any examples? I cannot think of a practical case where this would be > required. I would think that an application will know if it sent a > broadcast or not, so it shouldn't have to receive that broadcast > itself. > Anyone disagree? If someone is using broadcast for a service discovery protocol instead of multicast, they would want services, whether running locally or remotely, to receive that broadcast. If loopback is the only interface, it might still be desirable to find services running on the local machine. -josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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