Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:09:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: wes@softweyr.com Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: broadcast udp packets ... Message-ID: <200307112109.h6BL9mM7018764@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <200307111407.04591.wes@softweyr.com>
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On 11 Jul, Wes Peters wrote: > What we observed on our embedded system is the packet gets sent on all > attached interfaces, with dest IP 255.255.255.255, and a src IP of the > local address that has the default route. If there isn't a default > route, sending to 255.255.255.255 fails with "no route to host." > > This is bogus, so I propose to change it to a special case, where > packets sent to 255.255.255.255 will be sent on each attached > interface, with src IP of the interface "primary" address. Does this > sound reasonable? Should it work without a default route? (I think it > should, the special case of the all-call broadcast shouldn't even go > into rtalloc.) This sounds good. I think it should work without a default route.
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