Re: [MiNT] Mintnet bug

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 11:49:58AM +0200, Torsten Lang wrote:
> > Anyhow, that might be where the problem comes from.  Anybody knows?
> > 
> Why don't you simply ask the one who implemented the change???
> 
> The behaviour was changed in a way that also icmp echo requests to a broadcast
> address (like a ping to 192.168.1.255) are answered by the network kernal.
> This is how Linux behaves and was needed for some Macintosh nfs client (and
> perhaps other sw) that tries to find all systems in the local network by
> sending such broadcasts.
> 
> The original network kernal simply dropped such requests...

Fine, but what about the bug that was reported? Could you track that down?
I think that has top priority because we cannot afford to have a bad
reputation for MiNT's behavior in a network.

Ciao

Guido
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