Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:28:05 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Martin Kaeske <Martin.Kaeske@II.Stud.TU-Ilmenau.DE> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine can not see its own broadcast messages Message-ID: <20011210012805.GA1114@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <20011210020052.A5093@walnut.hh59.local> References: <20011208204520.GA738@gforce.johnson.home> <20011209225823.GA15339@gforce.johnson.home> <20011210020052.A5093@walnut.hh59.local>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:00:52AM +0100, Martin Kaeske wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > I started rwhod and I have the rmonitor port installed. I ran > > > tcpdump and can see the broadcasts but the system is not listening > > > to them (apparently). In the case of rwhod, no /var/rwho/whod > > > file is being created. > > Hello, > As far as I know, FreeBSD doesn't answer broadcasts by default. > Maybe you want to set "sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=1". > Actually a Linux machine is the only one answering broadcasts > in my LAN (FreeBSD and OpenBSD are quiet) ;). The packets in question are UDP not ICMP. No answering is needed, just reading the packet and recording the information in the whod file in /var/rwho for the rwhod case. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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