Abraham K. Mathen wrote:
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.
No, because in FreeBSD, lo(4) is not implemented as a broadcast
interface. It is a multicast capable software loopback interface. I
Abraham K. Mathen wrote:
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> Hello freebsd-net,
> 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 a