RE: [lwip-devel] [patch #6539] ICMP broadcast

[Bill Auerbach]

Every program I've looked at and responses to questions asked about it 
implement autoconfiguration with UDP broadcasts.  I've done the same with lwIP 
and it works great.  Why use ICMP?

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
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>                  Summary: ICMP broadcast
>                  Project: lwIP - A Lightweight TCP/IP stack
>             Submitted by: rishi
>             Submitted on: Thursday 06/12/2008 at 18:48
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>                 Priority: 5 - Normal
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> I needed ICMP to be able to respond to broadcast pings for
> autoconfiguration.
> I added flags: LWIP_BROADCAST_PING and LWIP_MULTICAST_PING that can be
> defined
> in lwipopts.h if you want broadcast pings. The only patched file is
> ipv4/icmp.c
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> Date: Thursday 06/12/2008 at 18:48  Name: icmp_broadcast.patch  Size:
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> By: rishi
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> <http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=15835>
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