On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Bhamy Madhava Shenoy wrote:
+ a) broadcasting a UDP message to all machines on a host.
+ - is a broadcast message sent to a particular port?
Yup, of course.
+ - also is there some way in which the sys admin can disable it?
ditto. disable it using ifconfig.
+ - how do I check whether it is enabled or disabled?
+
'ifconfig' on command line shud do that. From inside of a code, socket
ioctl SO_BROADCAST shud tell you this thing.
Can't provide you with a live working code, but writing such a code is
trivial job.
Sharad.
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