Hello everyone, was wondering if someone out there might be able to help
me with something.

I have a device on my network that sends out broadcast packets (ip
255.255.255.255).

I would like to write a linux program that receives these packets on
another machine. 

I pulled out a linux socket programming example from University that
works fine for unicast packets and have been trying to modify it for
broadcast packets. I have it set to the correct port, but it never sees
any of the broadcast packets.

I've set SO_BROADCAST with set_sockopt but it didn't improve things.

Is there a trick to enabling the reception of broadcast packets?

Does anyone have a compilable example of a problem that receives
broadcast UDP packets?

Thanks for any help. TTYL
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