Subject: Re: Broadcasting to 255.255.255.255
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Wienck <awienck@solnet.ch>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/19/2007 21:04:48 
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:11:23AM +0200, André Wienck wrote:

> In that case you probably also shouldn't be attempting to do
> normal networking.

Like doing BOOTP or DHCP?

I never understood why this requires sending and receiving raw
packets when the normal networking API would be perfectly suitable
if it weren't for such idiosyncrasies.

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                                Michael van Elst
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