From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 9 7:59: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C0C37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.suscom.net (userweb.suscom.net [64.78.119.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD8243EF4 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:58:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cumquott@suscom.net) Received: from localhost (userweb.suscom.net [64.78.119.248]) by smtp.suscom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1F010EF72 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:58:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pop.suscom.net (pop.suscom.net [64.78.119.253]) by smtp.suscom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A652510EF28 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:58:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from suscom.net (mailhost.suscom.net [127.0.0.1]) by pop.suscom.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 815E83A801A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:58:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 12.151.4.177 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cumquott) by webmail.suscom.net with HTTP; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:58:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3493.12.151.4.177.1034175499.squirrel@webmail.suscom.net> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:58:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Ping to broadcast ok from subnet, not ok otherwise From: "TheGlenMann" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: cumquott@suscom.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.0 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all- (Is this list working right? - I'm getting lots of wierd stuff in the digests...but anyway...) Other attempts to find the answer to this have failed, hopefully this isn't too off-topic. We have several subnets connected via Frame Relay. Call them 10.10.1, 10.10.2, 10.10.3, etc. On each, the gateway is the 254 address, e.g., 10.10.1.254. Sitting at a 10.10.1.n machine, I can ping the gateway 10.10.x.254 on every subnet. However, a ping to the broadcast address as ping -c1 10.10.x.255 fails on some of the subnets (from outside that subnet). From within the subnet, the ping to the broadcast succeeds everywhere. Pings to known hosts (and 10.10.x.254) succeed always from everywhere. So, my question is, why would I be able to successfully ping to the broadcast address from within a subnet but not from outside the subnet, but only in certain cases? We have a mix of windows, FreeBSD, router, and other machines on each subnet. (I'm led to ask all this since where the broadcast doesn't work from outside the subnet, neither does DHCP, which is proving to be a real problem!) Thanks -Glen Mann -- "I may not have had enough of me, but I've had enough of you." Robert Fripp, Exposure -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message