From owner-freebsd-net Thu Aug 9 9:27:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.spock.org (cm-24-29-85-81.nycap.rr.com [24.29.85.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD2437B407; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:27:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@enterprise.spock.org) Received: (from jon@localhost) by enterprise.spock.org serial EF600Q3T-B7F; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:27:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jon)$ Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:27:10 -0400 From: Jonathan Chen To: Matthew Jacob Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forwarding broadcast Message-ID: <20010809122710.F9519@enterprise.spock.org> References: <20010809113638.A9519@enterprise.spock.org> <20010809092010.M69994-100000@wonky.feral.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: telnet/1.1x In-Reply-To: <20010809092010.M69994-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:20:55AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:20:55AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I haven't consulted the RFCs either, but, ahem, I thought this was a major > point of netmasks and routers and why multicast was invented- to keep > broadcasts from clogging the world. It would be nice if all applications supported multicast. It would be even nicer if I could figure out why mrouted isn't doing what it's supposed to do on this machine, but that's a whole different problem... I might ask for help on that one if I still can't figure it out after some debugging... -Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message