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Re: Re: How to send UDP broadcast to 255.255.255.255?
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-06-16, Jay Foster <jay@systech.com> wrote:
>
>> You can try the following patch that someone added to my local source. It
>> adds a CDL option (CYGOPT_NET_INET_FORCE_DIRECTED_BROADCAST) to modify this
>> behavior (the default being the same behavior you have now). Sorry it isn't
>> in "patch" format, but it is straight forward. What is not shown here is
>> configuring this option to '0' in your applications .ecm or template file.
>
>
> Thanks. I'll have to check to see if the need for the feature
> is significant enough to justify forking the network stack
> (something I'm pretty ruluctant to do).
>
If this works and is useful to you, we can just check it in.
After all, it's controlled by CDL, so the default behaviour
will remain the same.
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