> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Harald Koenig wrote:
>
> > ah, interesting. this also explains why I don't see my hostname at home
> > because (for historical reasons) I have a dummy interface too
> > which doen't hsa the broadcast flag set either:
> > [...]
> > but how can I get an entry for localhost again with 2.1.x ?
> > I tried `ifconfig lo broadcast 127.255.255.255' but this didn't
> > set the BROADCAST flag.
> >
> > is this a design decission in 2.1/2.2 that broadcasts are not possible
> > at all (and not only off by default) for lo and dummy devices
> > or is this just a bug ?
>
> It seems to be intentional. In the case of dummy it certainly
> looks as though BROADCAST should be allowed. It is supposed to
> behave like a real network interface isn't it?
any rationale for this intention ? right now I only can see that
- it breaks xdm
- it's incompatible to other U*X (*BSD and Linux 2.0)
are there any other programs which might need broadcasts on lo, too ?
Harald
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