Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multi-window display

[Cameron M. <li...@to...>]

* Der...@Un... [2001.09.06 14:11]:
> "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

If you have X11 setup, I'd suggest using ethereal[1].  I find it much
easier to inspect what's going on with ethereal than I do with tcpdump.

[1] http://www.ethereal.com/
-- 
Cameron Moore