At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:37:51 +0000, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > I'm personally not in favour of sending a single broadcast packet to > multiple interfaces as it has potential for denial of service, and > doesn't seem to be consistent with the behaviour of other systems, > or the most common use-case for undirected broadcast, which is early > boot and/or DHCP. Applications such as ISC DHCP work around the > traditional BSD behaviour by using BPF to inject and receive IP > broadcasts. >
Just on this quick point, I too think copying broadcasts to all interfaces is a bad idea and should be avoided. Best, George _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
