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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:37:41 +0100
From:      "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Zhu Yan <nayuhz@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-python@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The broadcast of python in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <460A4575.7010709@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <8ae5ea120703272226q39b37660qb2ad25f0f8693a18@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <8ae5ea120703272226q39b37660qb2ad25f0f8693a18@mail.gmail.com>

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Zhu Yan wrote:
>
> When I send the broadcast in FreeBSD with address 255.255.255.255, the
> packet can not be received by other OS. 

FreeBSD applications need to use the IP_ONESBCAST option to send 
all-ones broadcasts. See the ip(4) man page.

Regards,
BMS



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