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  • Just did some basic testing on broadcast addresses using socat, broadcast is not working at all with /32 addresses. With /24 addresses, broadcast only reaches nodes that share a subnet. Nodes that don’t share the subnet aren’t reachable by broadcast even when they’re reachable via unicast.

    Edit1: Did more testing, it seems like broadcast traffic ignores routing tables.

    On 192.168.0.2, I am running socat -u udp-recv:8000,reuseaddr - to print UDP messages.

    Case 1: add 192.168.0.1/24

    # ip addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev eth0
    # # Testing unicast
    # socat - udp-sendto:192.168.0.2:8000 <<< "Message"
    # # Worked
    # socat - udp-sendto:192.168.0.255:8000,broadcast <<< "Message"
    # # Worked
    

    Case 2: Same as above but delete 192.168.0.0/24 route

    # ip addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev eth0
    # ip route del 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0
    # # Testing unicast
    # socat - udp-sendto:192.168.0.2:8000 <<< "Message"
    2024/02/13 22:00:23 socat[90844] E sendto(5, 0x5d3cdaa2b000, 8, 0, AF=2 192.168.0.2:8000, 16): Network is unreachable
    # # Testing broadcast
    # socat - udp-sendto:192.168.0.255:8000,broadcast <<< "Message"
    # # Worked