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is it expected behaviour to receive one's own broadcast messages?

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Subject: is it expected behaviour to receive one's own broadcast messages?
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:00:04 -0400
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I have an app that is sending out broadcast messages to the local network using 255.255.255.255. It is registered for INADDR_ANY. The thing that seems strange is that it receives a copy of every packet that it sends out. Is this expected?


The kernel is 2.4.18.

Thanks,

Chris

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