Having problems with limited broadcast

Peter Steele psteele at maxiscale.com
Thu Jan 8 11:16:50 PST 2009


>Peter, leaving aside the issue of FreeBSD limited broadcast, have you 
>considered ZeroConf, and in particular the IPv4 Link-Level Addressing 
>portion of it to meet your basic "get the boxes addressed" requirement?
>
>http://www.zeroconf.org/
>http://files.zeroconf.org/rfc3927.txt
>
>I don't have any experience with the lagg device yet, so I don't know
if 
>that presents specific issues wrt ipv4ll code.

I just found your email in my junk email folder. For some reason my
filter didn't like it.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I'm not familiar with ZeroConf; I'll
check it out.

The lagg device should not be a problem. It appears as a normal Ethernet
device as far as the OS is concerned.

Peter



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