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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:46:44 -0400
From:      Charles Smith <clearscreen@gmail.com>
To:        galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu
Cc:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: How can I send packets to 255.255.255.255 from the command line?
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It is still limited to the "local network," about as harmless as a DHCP broa=
dcast.

- Charles



Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> w=
rote:
>=20
>=20
>> On Fri, August 19, 2016 9:46 am, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>>> On 18.08.16 22:29, Ryan Stone wrote:
>>> I want to test a change to broadcast packet handling and I want to
>>> confirm
>>> that 255.255.255.255 is still handled correctly. Are there any
>>> command-line
>>> tools in FreeBSD that can send to the broadcast address?  ping
>>> 255.255.255.255 does not work correctly, unfortunately.
>>=20
>> There is one in src/tools/regression/netinet/ipbroadcast
>> You can build it with command
>> # make WARNS=3D0
>>=20
>=20
> Am I the only one who is kind of kicked out of the chair when seeing
> someone attempting to broadcast the who ipv4 internet: 255.255.255.255 ?!
> Someone explain me this is OK and is not a "big bang" level of noise ;-(
>=20
> Valeri
>=20
>> --
>> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>>=20
>>=20
>=20
>=20
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Valeri Galtsev
> Sr System Administrator
> Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
> Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
> University of Chicago
> Phone: 773-702-4247
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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