Socket bound to 0.0.0.0 never receives broadcasts with non-zero IP source address

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Wed Apr 8 22:42:49 UTC 2015


On 04/08/2015 15:31, John Howie wrote:
> Is your machine a router or gateway, or have a firewall? Are you trying to
> capture all broadcast packets, or just UDP targeted and broadcast packets
> to a particular port?

No, it isn't a gateway or router, and no firewall. Trying to capture all 
broadcast UDP to a particular port.

Observing this with with virtual machine dhcp client bridged to the host 
through tapN. Host is otherwise just a plain FreeBSD workstation itself.

Yuri


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