In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> This doesn't seem right at all.  If I bind a socket to my lan
> ip(192.168.0.8), I'm not getting broadcasts on 255.255.255.255.

255.255.255.255 is not 192.168.0.8. If you bind a socket to an address, you
only get packets to that address. I guess you want to bind to an interface
instead.

> I wrote a test program, binding to lan IP works on windows.  Was
> something changed recently, or has it been like this for a while?
> It's causing some network games to not run properly.

This never worked for Linux.

Gruss
Bernd
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