On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:46:33PM +0000, Matthew Grooms wrote: > > In any case, I wrote a quick little program to generate a broadcast > message for use with testing the relay daemon ( I got tired of waiting for > bootp requests to be picked up by my cable modem as a test case ). > Unfortunately, I can never get the test program generate an all-routes > broadcast, they always come out as network directed broadcasts.
There's a sleazy way. I was told it by Irix support in 1994, and if I'm not mistaken dhclient uses it still today. Ifconfig your interface with an alias of 255.0.0.1/8. Told you it was sleazy. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
