From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 9 17:28:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx04.cluster0.hsacorp.net [209.225.8.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A4C437B416 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:28:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.158.214.244] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 5045989; Sun, 09 Dec 2001 20:34:26 -0500 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBA1S5T01151; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:28:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:28:05 -0600 To: Martin Kaeske Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine can not see its own broadcast messages Message-ID: <20011210012805.GA1114@gforce.johnson.home> References: <20011208204520.GA738@gforce.johnson.home> <20011209225823.GA15339@gforce.johnson.home> <20011210020052.A5093@walnut.hh59.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011210020052.A5093@walnut.hh59.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:00:52AM +0100, Martin Kaeske wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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) ;). The packets in question are UDP not ICMP. No answering is needed, just reading the packet and recording the information in the whod file in /var/rwho for the rwhod case. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message