From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 9 17: 0:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from piggy.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (piggy.rz.tu-ilmenau.de [141.24.4.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90A737B41B for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:00:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gtw.hh59.local (p3EE227D0.dip.t-dialin.net [62.226.39.208]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by piggy.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fBA106H02489 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified NO) for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:00:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from walnut.hh59.local (walnut.hh59.local [192.168.2.10]) by gtw.hh59.local (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBA1ChK05084 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified FAIL) for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:12:45 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 5417 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Dec 2001 01:00:52 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:00:52 +0100 From: Martin Kaeske To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine can not see its own broadcast messages Message-ID: <20011210020052.A5093@walnut.hh59.local> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011208204520.GA738@gforce.johnson.home> <20011209225823.GA15339@gforce.johnson.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011209225823.GA15339@gforce.johnson.home>; from glennpj@charter.net on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:45:20PM -0600, glenn wrote: > > uname -a: > > > FreeBSD gforce.johnson.home 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #4: Sat Dec 8 14:04:15 CST 2001 root@gforce.johnson.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GFORCE i386 > > > > I started rwhod and I have the rmonitor port installed. I ran tcpdump > > and can see the broadcasts but the system is not listening to them > > (apparently). In the case of rwhod, no /var/rwho/whod file is being > > created. > > > > Here is the output of tcpdump -n -i xl0: [tcpdump output SNIPed] Hello, As far as I know, FreeBSD doesn't answer broadcasts by default. Maybe you want to set "sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=1". Actually a Linux machine is the only one answering broadcasts in my LAN (FreeBSD and OpenBSD are quiet) ;). Martin -- The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed FreeBSD. -- Jim Levie in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message