broadcast udp packets ...

[Wes Peters]

On Friday 11 July 2003 14:21, Sreekanth wrote:
> Couldn't it be done just by executing the following command ?
> #route add 255.255.255.255 -net 255.255.255.255 -ifp [primary
> interface]
>
> I know it is kind of crude but it works in my case :-)

In our case, it's being run before *any* interface has an IP address, so 
the routing table is completely empty.  Yes, it's obviously part of a 
device discovery phase, and we could do some special ethernet level 
h0h0magic but we don't want to, we want broadcasting to work. ;^)

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Wes Peters                                              wes at softweyr.com