Subject: Re: Broadcasting to 255.255.255.255
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?QW5kcuk=?= Wienck <awienck@solnet.ch>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/19/2007 08:04:40
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Salut,

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:35:01 +0200 Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
wrote:
> I'm pretty sure dhclient does it through bpf(4).

And you're right, it does do it this way.

Given that any-network broadcast is a very special situation, I would
even argue that this is actually the right way to do it.

aw
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