Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:40:08 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, wes@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Receiving INADDR_BROADCAST packets Message-ID: <20030824174008.GI1417@spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20030822183018.GH1417@spc.org> References: <200308221318.h7MDIwW24087@windsor.research.att.com> <20030822183018.GH1417@spc.org>
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:30:18PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > I probably wouldn't need to bind sockets to each interface if I were doing > purely broadcast traffic. I'm happy with what works for the time being, > however; I may revisit this if I ever implement IPv6 support for the daemon > I'm currently hacking. IP_ONESBCAST has saved a lot of trouble for me. I take that back, I just rewrote my code to use IP_SETSRCADDR and have seen a corresponding shrink in my interface setup and event dispatch code. This rocks! BMS
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