Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:16:48 -0800 From: "Peter Steele" <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: "Bruce Walker" <bmw@wezel.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Having problems with limited broadcast Message-ID: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479FB0@polaris.maxiscale.com> In-Reply-To: <4964CA2E.5090708@wezel.com> References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479DF2@polaris.maxiscale.com> <28b9b4180901070039x27a25bb4m6b50c8bfae63e0af@mail.gmail.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F2479E9A@polaris.maxiscale.com> <4964CA2E.5090708@wezel.com>
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>Peter, leaving aside the issue of FreeBSD limited broadcast, have you=20 >considered ZeroConf, and in particular the IPv4 Link-Level Addressing=20 >portion of it to meet your basic "get the boxes addressed" requirement? > >http://www.zeroconf.org/ >http://files.zeroconf.org/rfc3927.txt > >I don't have any experience with the lagg device yet, so I don't know if=20 >that presents specific issues wrt ipv4ll code. I just found your email in my junk email folder. For some reason my filter didn't like it. Thanks for the suggestion though. I'm not familiar with ZeroConf; I'll check it out. The lagg device should not be a problem. It appears as a normal Ethernet device as far as the OS is concerned. Peter
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