Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multi-window display

[Derrell L. <Der...@Un...>]

"John Wojnaroski" <ca...@mm...> writes:

> Alex writes:
> 
> > Have you checked whether the OS is actually doing the broadcasts
> > using > another program to send and receive the packets ?  I've
> > had some Windows machines that have ignored my specification of
> > the broadcast address and used their own.  As a result, the
> > address I thought I had to use for broadcast ... didn't.
>
> That's a good point. I've got windows95 (2), ME (1) , 2000 (1) and
> linux (1) on four machines I'll try a variety of mixes for servers
> and clients and see what happens. The network functions are built
> into the linux kernel. I have no idea what Gates and MS have done!
> Not sure I want to find out ;-)

Since you have a Linux machine, you'll likely find the tcpdump(8)
program quite useful in determining what's actually happening out
there on the LAN.  Type "man tcpdump" for more info.  It's quite
powerful for snooping on the LAN to debug problems such as this.

Derrell