Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UC.MSC.UMN.EDU!slevy From: slevy@UC.MSC.UMN.EDU ("Stuart Levy") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: default broadcast address Message-ID: <8807161715.AA19564@uc.msc.umn.edu> Date: 16 Jul 88 17:15:22 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 6 That's a great idea! (To select an interface for broadcast by bind()ing the socket first.) You could even handle the fact that there's no route for e.g. 255.255.255.255, by invoking the check-for-bound-socket- on-broadcast code only when the route lookup fails. If on the other hand the route lookup succeeds, you must have specified some net-specific destination. Stuart