From owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org Thu Aug 18 19:29:46 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98882BBEDB7 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:29:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rysto32@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x234.google.com (mail-it0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D898170D for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:29:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rysto32@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x234.google.com with SMTP id e63so3112256ith.1 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:29:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=ZTOHa0rvLkcRI3ULvZ01stGW1ncmNFk5ohCJdTjCjFE=; b=QagffKgC2POLMTN3ykjNSniqIDPrT8a/GHQjpcGQsFsTYIOpAp4EegUul0tyGRrfXB eqT505whzCT4LE+pkORt8FVtPbvI2b9JkcxD7WrsT1WPFkpy/fkUVtEic4ZBkThxFaRw GtuOa7AxGaFgVKfAMbvSQFD8H95IQ6+kHIN0b1gtTTv8ZUGXqMn1ysPMg2O5KhE5wqsW CoPLhDzWvAES94t9BMqXOJ4BQX4xl/8W/CYQT+q9MpJmbT4IK2Qqo5KrFDxX1Ab/79Bh KG4DRDymnglyuOu1eLZSqS1Pw+Fi2jTrMJ0LRNuqTfVK0Ly/PovoMck1R4TX67B6wCM3 2/Ug== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=ZTOHa0rvLkcRI3ULvZ01stGW1ncmNFk5ohCJdTjCjFE=; b=VtGDrMqaJ7tvyHQ7YnxeeeDu5o0mDNTcL1dp7pcQuJFFbMolrEq1UPw0/DYDkDK5K0 igFzCRGT6NPUUMnY7CEuSt9cfCYifhdhwwVUPty8NTy1mc+LXZ/xWwmWPfrUcJUBHut/ +GwFBzU5tcX0zzHnvK2TY7qaXxSnkkVi+uXmkhSceJW7jKBiLlHWVxou4xeH/5bCHIGW IFXFJCqOvIrO+FMR47sK/40NyZ9yzWo1gndVqkiyeIl9fyFTiTGbeL94Q3rejFHAN4IH Bf2DdZpu6sZcvX4ztdDWbZR3xS22aVcV87plR9jvGpaEfDnA4d2rncTLsGL9fdY9qVbA gjcQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkooutEe2hXavR6tkQfrKtwL0PQALDA/u2C6Brf22R5v/Ttgx1OT5v88fUEsEFvu7VVg3mVHMU77DKYq7yckg== X-Received: by 10.36.217.9 with SMTP id p9mr1570605itg.46.1471548585783; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:29:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.200.71 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:29:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Ryan Stone Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:29:45 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: How can I send packets to 255.255.255.255 from the command line? To: freebsd-net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:29:46 -0000 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.