local host does not see broadcast on OS X

[Steve Gehlbach]

Dar Scott wrote:
> 
> After looking at 'route get' and netstat and ifconfig, I suspect this 
> may be a routing problem (and perhaps involves politics, philosophy, 
> pragmatics and literacy).
> 

Maybe it is routing, I don't know, but one other thing that you might 
check that affects networks is kernel firewalling.  I think on BSD it is 
"ipfw" and "ipfw show" will list any firewall settings.  Something like 
that, anyway.  I don't know what Apple is putting in by default these 
days, but many Linux systems, such as Lindows, are putting up some 
pretty restrictive firewalls (iptables in Linux).

I doubt if this is the issue, but it is always something to check when 
you are troubleshooting network problems.

-Steve