On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 12:15:30PM -0500, Mike Pelley wrote:
> >uhm, 255.255.255.255 is not "all Internet". It is "all stations on the
> >local subnet".
> 
> When I said "all machines" I did not want to go through any routers, just
> hit the machines plugged into the same hub/switch as me.
> 
> Another fellow (James Braswell) suggested that I might be able to open the
> bpf device and create the packet.  I'm going to give that a try now.

This is NOT needed.

Broadcast packets will perfectly well reach all stations connected to the same
hub/switch... if not, it is misconfigured of behaving badly. 

I suggest you use tne (network number,-1) notation, at least until you can
run 1.4, which has the bug fixed.

Regards,
	-is