On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:00:52AM +0100, Martin Kaeske wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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) ;).
The packets in question are UDP not ICMP. No answering is needed, just reading the packet and recording the information in the whod file in /var/rwho for the rwhod case. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
