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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: Do UDP broadcasts work in FreeBSD?
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why 255.255.255.255 not your net broadcast address?

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Peter Steele wrote:

> Our efforts so far indicate the answer is no, which baffles us. We want
> to send a limited broadcast to 255.255.255.255 but the message never
> arrives. The same code works fine under Linux. Is there a trick for
> doing this kind of thing under FreeBSD?
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