RS/6000 broadcasts not heard by sender
Andrew J. Schorr
schorr at ead.dsa.com
Fri Oct 19 01:28:48 AEST 1990
In the course of porting our software, we have noticed that
the RS/6000 does not "hear" its own broadcasts. Before continuing,
I should mention that we are using ethernet, not token ring.
If a program broadcasts a request to a certain port, a daemon
listening on that port on the same machine will not receive
the packet! This behavior is definitely inconsistent with
SunOS and, I imagine, with other platforms as well. According
to my SE, this behavior is known and has to do with the design
of the ethernet hardware.
I would call this a bug, not a "feature." Are other people
having problems with this? Is IBM going to fix this?
-Andy
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