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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: The broadcast of python in FreeBSD
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Zhu Yan wrote:
>
> When I send the broadcast in FreeBSD with address 255.255.255.255, the
> packet can not be received by other OS. 

FreeBSD applications need to use the IP_ONESBCAST option to send 
all-ones broadcasts. See the ip(4) man page.

Regards,
BMS