Subject: Re: Broadcasting to 255.255.255.255
To: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/20/2007 00:39:55
Michael van Elst skrev:
> bqt@softjar.se (Johnny Billquist) writes:
>
>> If I want a explicit network directed broadcast, I can do that myself.
>
> The tricky part is to specify the interface to be used with 255.255.255.255.
That, of course, depends on if you really want to direct it to a
specific device. If I broadcast to 255.255.255.255, I would expect any
device would be acceptable (possibly with the addition that it be a
device to a medium where broadcasts make sense).
If I want a broadcast to go out on a specific device, I can do a
broadcast to that device's network broadcast address.
Johnny
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