Messages in this thread |  | | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | | Subject | Re: xdm not seeing localhost | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:56:18 +0400 (MSK DST) |
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Hello!
> I don't understand. Does the BSD API say you cannot turn on > IFF_BROADCAST on a dummy interface?
I said, I agreed with your argument about dummy. (Though, imagine, pure bsd really does not allow to make it 8)8)8))
> The bug is > that Linux 2.1 cannot see its own broadcast if there is no > real, physical interface which defaults to IFF_BROADCAST.
It was bug in 2.0, it is fixed and now Linux behaves exactly, as all these applications (including chooser) expect.
It is about loopback.
What's about dummy I agreed and it will be fixed.
Alexey
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