RE: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Sreekanth
That brings an interesting topic.If the Interface has not been assigned an IP address.The Interface is NOT initialized.So you cannot really use the interface.Ofcourse you can bypass this by hacking into driver.But do you want to do that is another questions. Just my 2 cents Sreekanth > -Ori

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 11 July 2003 14:21, Sreekanth wrote: > Couldn't it be done just by executing the following command ? > #route add 255.255.255.255 -net 255.255.255.255 -ifp [primary > interface] > > I know it is kind of crude but it works in my case :-) In our case, it's being run before *any* interface

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 11 July 2003 14:09, Don Lewis wrote: > 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 > > def

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wes Peters wrote: On Tuesday 01 July 2003 12:01, Chuck Swiger wrote: If you have multiple interfaces, a broadcast to 255.255.255.255 should go out on all of them. That being said, the all-ones broadcast address means "all local networks", and most routers will block such traffic from passing on in

RE: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Sreekanth
Couldn't it be done just by executing the following command ? #route add 255.255.255.255 -net 255.255.255.255 -ifp [primary interface] I know it is kind of crude but it works in my case :-) Sreekanth > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Don Lewis
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 "n

Re: broadcast udp packets ...

2003-07-11 Thread Wes Peters
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 12:01, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Matthew Grooms wrote: > > Is there any way to generate a udp broadcast ( all routes > > 255.255.255.255 ) packet using a standard sendto() without it being > > translated into a local network broadcast? Is this just not > > "allowed"? > > Ar

freeBSD and linux networking

2003-07-11 Thread Van Vinh Vo
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Re: Problems with Netgraph PPPoE

2003-07-11 Thread Julian Elischer
answered in private email On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Christophe Prevotaux wrote: > Hello, > > > i get the following error when trying to start pppoed > I am running 4.8-STABLE > > /usr/libexec/pppoed -Fd -P /var/run/pppoed.pid -n 5 -p "*" rl1 > > > Sending PPPOE_LISTEN to .:pppoe-1581, provi

Problems with Netgraph PPPoE

2003-07-11 Thread Christophe Prevotaux
Hello, i get the following error when trying to start pppoed I am running 4.8-STABLE /usr/libexec/pppoed -Fd -P /var/run/pppoed.pid -n 5 -p "*" rl1 Sending PPPOE_LISTEN to .:pppoe-1581, provider * pppoed: SENDING MESSAGE: pppoed: SOCKADDR: { fam=32 len=15 addr=".:pppoe-1581" } pppoed: NG_MESG

Re: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)

2003-07-11 Thread Dominic Marks
On 10/07/2003 21:45, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > Hi, > > Please see http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html > > "Real" PPPoE with a ethernet card connected with a ADSL Modem works. > > This problem is related with ISPs that supports *only* PPPoE protocol > with USB Modems (this c