local host does not see broadcast on OS X

[Alex Rice]

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 04:11  PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> The broadcast works for other computers and I don't get an error, so 
> this does not seem to be exactly the problem.  However, I have been 
> wondering about some other, more obscure, flag that we never heard of.
>
> At this point I don't know if the problem is in sending or receiving 
> because another datagram sockets bug makes it hard to do some testing.

Does sound kind of like a bug.

> Do those man pages use the phrase "remote computer" when referring to 
> broadcasting?

They refer to "address of the target", and "destination address". I 
don't see the phrase remote computer anywhere.

BTW here are some old apple technotes that talk about "the endpoint 
never receives any UDP broadcast messages" and "IP reuse address delay"

http://developer.apple.com/qa/nw/nw53.html
http://developer.apple.com/qa/nw/nw28.html

Those predate apple's move to BSD networking, but still might be useful 
info.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com