Kai Moritz wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I'm trying to send a broadcast message over RTnet. This email from
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/rtnet-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00312.html)
> from Oct 2004 says, that  you only have to create a package with a
> broadcast destination adress. But RTnet only says: "RTnet: host
> 255.255.255.255 unreachable" or "RTnet: host 127.0.0.255 unreachable".

What does rtroute tell you about available destination IPs on your
system? Note that every IP you want to send a message to has to be
covered by some route in RTnet, i.e. either by a host or a net route.

> Another hin I found says, that (when dealing with the normal kernel
> ip-stack) you have to put the socket in broadcast-mode first with
> setsockopt(sock,SOL_SOCKET,SO_BROADCAST,...)) but this also does not
> work with RTnet (setsockopt_rt returns ENOPROTOOPT)...

No, this is not required for RTnet.

> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> At the moment I'm using RTnet 0.8.3 with RTAI 3.2 and Kerne 2.4
> 
> Greetings Kai
> 

Jan

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