Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:47:26PM +0100, dlezcano at fr.ibm.com wrote: >> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com> >> >> Broadcast packets should be delivered to l2 and all l3 childs > > hmm, really? shouldn't it only reach those which > actually have related addresses assigned? Yes right but this is what happens, My sentence is incomplete. "broadcast packets should be delivered to l2 and all l3 childs having sockets listening for this broadcast address" Thanks.