[Infrastructures] ISconf: Cache.py - bcast method

[Steve Traugott]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:06:00PM -0500, Daniel Hagerty wrote:
>  > Yes, from the sendto call. The machine is just for testing ISCONF. It
>  > is a clean install of Ubuntu with simple routing (just gets a dhcp
>  > address). I am not using the IS_NETS file and the address that fails
>  > is <broadcast>. Also, the call succedes for some number of calls then
>  > throws the exception.
> 
>     *Which* broadcast?  255.255.255.255, or subnet address all ones?

In python, the string '<broadcast>' means INADDR_BROADCAST i.e.
255.255.255.255.  (This was more foolproof than trying to figure out
the local network numbers.  If it turns out that this is somehow
causing blocking on a UDP sendto(), then then I'm going to have to eat
my hat or something.)

Steve

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