Re: broadcast over loopback

[Joshua Graessley]

On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 04:15 PM, Jason Hunt wrote:

Other platforms out there will handle broadcast on the loopback
interface. Is it desirable to make changes to the FreeBSD stack to get
this behavior?

Any examples? I cannot think of a practical case where this would be
required. I would think that an application will know if it sent a
broadcast or not, so it shouldn't have to receive that broadcast itself.
Anyone disagree?

If someone is using broadcast for a service discovery protocol instead of multicast, they would want services, whether running locally or remotely, to receive that broadcast. If loopback is the only interface, it might still be desirable to find services running on the local machine.

-josh


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