[Olsr-dev] bug in os x solved + new one found

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Markus Kittenberger wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:54 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan <(spam-protected)>  
> wrote:
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> stupid reason:
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> In newer OS X versions *even* when you marked in the firewall that it
> should allow all OLSR traffic, it will still block incoming broadcast
> packets on 698
> really any broadcast?

Any *UDP* broadcast.

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> or just to e.g. 255.255.255.255?
> i mean does it also block broadcast to the configured broadcast  
> address of the interface?
>
yes.

> I was bumping my head against this for some time.
> Only disabling the fw helped.
> sound a bit like, while windows tries to look like apple, apple (and  
> ubuntu also) trie to function like windows,.. *g
>
hehe

maybe. Or the fw in OS X is just sometimes a bit paranoid.

a.