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RE: VB6 OCX and loopback interface
- Subject: RE: VB6 OCX and loopback interface
- From: "Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:12:40 +0100
> However, this has highlighted a big gap in my IP knowledge. I
> was under the impression that I should restrict the broadcast
> address to stop transmitting xPL packets to the whole
> internet; now I'm not sure any more!
Hi Rob,
UDP broadcasts on 255.255.255.255 should not propogate to the internet,
unless you have a badly behaving connection (e.g. a router should always
block broadcasts)
If you had changed your broadcast ip to something like 192.168.1.255 then I
assume it didn't work because loopback is on 127.0.0.1 (so not in subnet)
and without a network connection your adapter would have picked up a non
192.168.1 address as no dhcp available (assuming you haven't got a
hardcoded
ip).
I'm sure someone can correct me if I'm wrong here
HTH
Regards
Tony
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