From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 13 16:58:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA04801 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:58:56 -0800 Received: from kelvin.cae.uwm.edu (hench@kelvin.cae.uwm.edu [129.89.55.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA04795 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:58:54 -0800 Received: (from hench@localhost) by kelvin.cae.uwm.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA03011 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 18:58:49 -0600 From: Mike Hench Message-Id: <199502140058.SAA03011@kelvin.cae.uwm.edu> Subject: broadcasts and routing To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 18:58:49 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 611 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk how does one go about sending an ip with a dest of 255.255.255.255 out 1 or all interfaces ? i want: inet->255.255.255.255 && enet->ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff whatever it try it either sends something like 129.89.63.255 (netmasked) or if i set ipconfig ...... broadcast 255.255.255.255 it sends it to DIRECTLY to the default router enet addr!!!! (trust me, i sniffed it) is this broken, or is my understanding of it broken. eliminating the default route gives a 'no route to host' error. this seems to be important for DHCP or at least ms's implementation of it. thank you very much, mike hench hench@cae.uwm.edu