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I'm hoping someone can help me figure out why I cant use
sendto() to send a UDP packet to a broadcast address under linux.

Lets say the normal IP is 192.168.1.1
I can use the same code on solaris, to bind to 192.168.1.1, and then
use sendto() to send a packet to 192.168.1.255

But on linux (either as regular user, or as root), I get an error,
 send failed: Permission denied

(the 'Permission denied' is from perror() )

Any suggestions?

If someone wants to play with real code, you can get it from

http://www.bolthole.com/freeha/freeha-0.9.tar.gz

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Did you call setsockopt to enable broadcast? It's one of the setsockopt
options.

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and its a standard, so I wonder why I got away with not using it, for
solaris.

thanks.

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