The behavior for sending and receiving local broadcast (255.255.255.255)
traffic is as follows:
Outgoing
--------
* A broadcast packet sent on a socket that is bound to an interface goes out
that interface
* A broadcast packet sent on an unbound socket follows the route table to
select the outgoing interface
+ if an explicit route entry exists for 255.255.255.255/32, use that one
+ else use the default route
* Broadcast packets are looped back and delivered following the rules for
incoming packets (see next). This is the same behavior as for multicast
packets, except that it cannot be disabled via sockopt.
Incoming
--------
* Sockets wishing to receive broadcast packets must bind to either INADDR_ANY
(0.0.0.0) or INADDR_BROADCAST (255.255.255.255). No other socket receives
broadcast packets.
* Broadcast packets are multiplexed to all sockets matching it. This is the
same behavior as for multicast packets.
* A socket can bind to 255.255.255.255:<port> and then receive its own
broadcast packets sent to 255.255.255.255:<port>
In addition, this change implicitly fixes an issue with multicast reception. If
two sockets want to receive a given multicast stream and one is bound to ANY
while the other is bound to the multicast address, only one of them will
receive the traffic.
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