On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:45:20PM -0600, glenn wrote:
>
> uname -a:
>
> > FreeBSD gforce.johnson.home 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #4: Sat Dec 8 14:04:15
>CST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GFORCE i386
> >
> > I started rwhod and I have the rmonitor port installed. I ran tcpdump
> > and can see the broadcasts but the system is not listening to them
> > (apparently). In the case of rwhod, no /var/rwho/whod file is being
> > created.
> >
> > Here is the output of tcpdump -n -i xl0:
[tcpdump output SNIPed]
Hello,
As far as I know, FreeBSD doesn't answer broadcasts by default.
Maybe you want to set "sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=1".
Actually a Linux machine is the only one answering broadcasts
in my LAN (FreeBSD and OpenBSD are quiet) ;).
Martin
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