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From: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:55:57 -0400
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Subject: Re: How can I send packets to 255.255.255.255 from the command line?
To: "Paul A. Procacci" <pprocacci@datapipe.com>
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Paul A. Procacci <pprocacci@datapipe.com>
wrote:

> You should be able to ping the local subnet.
> Alternatively you can use net/arping.
>
> ~Paul
>

I'm specifically looking to test the handling of 255.255.255.255, so a
local broadcast address is out.  Unfortunately, arping doesn't seem to do
the right thing on FreeBSD.  It manages to get the kernel to try arp'ing
for 255.255.255.255.