On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:55:53PM +1030, Damon McMahon wrote:
> On 13/03/2008, at 7:32 PM, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>> Do i have to enable broadcasts explicitly ? I could not find anything in
>> the manpages, and googling for "routing broadcasts" or similar yields only
>> pages dealing with routing protocols.
>
> Broadcasts can't be routed - it's a violation of the Internet Protocol and
> so it's the OpenBSD IP stack which is dropping your packets, not pf(4). I
> guess if you absolutely need to route broadcast packets one option is to
> use NAT in pf.conf(5), e.g. (not tested)
In addition to Damon's remarks, imagine what would happen if
broadcasts *were* routed. While imagining this, please remember that
a) I'm in no way interested in your (or other peoples) traffic and b) I
have limited bandwidth I'd like to use for *MY OWN* traffic.
You may want to look into multicast.
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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