On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 08:59 -0800, Alex Harford wrote: > On 1/10/06, Herbert Graf wrote: > > > > 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? > > I wonder if your networking equipment is sending out the packets with > a broadcast of 255.255.255.255 (ie every node on the internet). > > Use ethereal to do a capture to see if your computer is actually > seeing those packets. You may need to use a more specific mask > (192.168.0.255) or change your switch/router's settings. Etherreal does indeed show the packets as destination ff:ff:ff:ff at the MAC layer, and 255.255.255.255 on the IP layer. Is this wrong? Another thing, do you think running Etherreal in promiscuous mode would mess up reception of broadcast packets? Thanks, TTYL ----------------------------- Herbert's PIC Stuff: http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist