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* is it expected behaviour to receive one's own broadcast messages?
@ 2003-06-16 21:00 Chris Friesen
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From: Chris Friesen @ 2003-06-16 21:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I have an app that is sending out broadcast messages to the local network using 
255.255.255.255.  It is registered for INADDR_ANY.  The thing that seems strange 
is that it receives a copy of every packet that it sends out.  Is this expected?

The kernel is 2.4.18.

Thanks,

Chris

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