[ECOS] Re: issue with raw bsd sockets

[Mandeep Sandhu]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Grant Edwards<grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2009-08-07, Jay Foster <jay@systech.com> wrote:
>
>> DHCP uses INADDR_BROADCAST (255.255.255.255) as the broadcast
>> address.  You probably need to set the interface broadcast
>> address to match.  You may also need to add a route to allow
>> broadcasts.  Look at the DHCP/BOOTP eCos code.  It does some
>> of this too.
>
> IMO, this is a major bit of suckage in the BSD network stack.

I agree, this sucks! Is there nothing like a default interface here?

> People have been complaining about it for a long time, and
> we've tripped over it several times under eCos.
>
> Under Linux, you can set the destination IP address to
> 255.255.255.255, and it gets sent to 255.255.255.255.  IOW, it
> "just works".  Under BSD and eCos you've got to jump through
> all sorts of hoops to send a broadast packet.
>
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