Joshua Graessley wrote:
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> 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.
Sure, since the thing doing service discovery may not be the same as
the thing (or th
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 w
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Joshua Graessley wrote:
> I am aware of the issues with broadcast, and I strongly urge people to
> use multicast instead of broadcast for a variety of reasons. All the
> same, I've been asked to address this issue and I wanted to understand
> why FreeBSD doesn't allow broadcast
Thank you for the reply Dan!
I am aware of the issues with broadcast, and I strongly urge people to
use multicast instead of broadcast for a variety of reasons. All the
same, I've been asked to address this issue and I wanted to understand
why FreeBSD doesn't allow broadcast on the loopback in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On 12/05/02 20:41:
Is there a reason that the broadcast flag is not set on the loopback
interface? It seems like it might be useful to allow applications that
use broadcast to continue to work even when loopback is the only
interface.
Your application shouldn't use bro
