cGull wrote:

>Hi
>
>Im getting an "Operation not permitted" type of exception when I try to
>broadcast a UDP datagram to my subnets broadcast address (all 1's on the
>host portion).
>
>Is there a flag somewhere in the kernel I can adjust to allow this?
>
>  
>


Before you can broadcast , you need to add a route to your kernel 
routing table..

route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 224.0.0.0 ethX

where, ethX is your network interface. 


HTH
Manu



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