Hello freebsd-hackers, I wrote a short program (on FreeBSD 6.0), that attempts to call sendto() on a UDP socket, with 127.255.255.255 as the destination address. It failed - with errno 49 (EADDRNOTAVAIL). Setting SO_BROADCAST and IP_ONESBCAST did not help.
After examining - various RFC's, - source code under /usr/src/sys/netinet/ and - archives of freebsd-hackers & freebsd-net, I have not been able to determine the reason. Is it possible to successfully sendto() on a UDP socket with 127.255.255.255 as the destination address? If yes, how can that be done. Specific questions : ---------------------------------------------------------- - Is it correct to understand that 127.255.255.255 is the directed network broadcast address for net 127? If yes, which RFC specifies that? - If not, is 127.255.255.255 considered to be a host address? If yes, which RFC specifies that? ---------------------------------------------------------- Could you please help me understand this? sincerely Mathen (Abraham K. Mathen) _________________________________________________________________ Mega Airfare Sale. Click here Now. http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=18 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
