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From: Curt Sampson <cjs@starling-software.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems Receiving UDP Broadcasts on Some Versions of Linux
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:37:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100127003744.GA16322@analytic.cynic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5D51E6.5090601@gmail.com>

On 2010-01-25 09:10 +0100 (Mon), Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > The short summary is that on two very similar servers on the same
> > network, an application that listens for broadcast UDP packets on a
> > given port works fine on the Ubuntu 8.04/Linux 2.6.24-26-server box but
> > does not receive the packets on the Ubuntu 9.04/Linux 2.6.28-17-server
> > box.
>
> Could you post a sample of tcpdump trafic you receive on the 9.04
> host, and your network config ? "ifconfig -a"

I've added both to the end of the StackOverflow entry:

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2130563/udp-broadcast-reception-problems-with-ubuntu-9-04-but-not-8-04

Again, please cc me on any responses; I'm on neither the linux-kernel
nor netdev lists.

cjs
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100125072749.GG21419@analytic.cynic.net>
2010-01-25  8:10 ` Problems Receiving UDP Broadcasts on Some Versions of Linux Eric Dumazet
2010-01-27  0:37   ` Curt Sampson [this message]
2010-01-27  3:56     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-27  5:14       ` Curt Sampson

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