Help Broadcasting a UDP packet on the LAN:URGENT

[Barney Wolff]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:00:19PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> 
> Undirected broadcasts will only work if you do the following:-

I've pointed out before that the gross hack of assigning IP address
255.0.0.0/8 to the desired interface should work.  I've just confirmed
that doing that, on RELENG_5_1 and RELENG_4, does result in ping
255.255.255.255 sending ICMP packets out with that dest addr.  I have
not personally tested UDP on FreeBSD, but this hack used to work
on Irix, which at least back then had a bsd-derived network stack,
to enable bootp to work with no kernel mods.

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