From owner-freebsd-net Mon Dec 9 15:12:25 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 00F7537B404 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:12:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-out2.apple.com (mail-out2.apple.com [17.254.0.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE9B43EA9 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:12:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgraessley@apple.com) Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gB9NCNI21444 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:12:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:11:59 -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 gB9NCMs09651 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:12:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:12:22 -0800 Subject: Re: broadcast over loopback Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) From: Joshua Graessley To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20021206185424.P19254-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> Message-Id: 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 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