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Subject: Re: How can I send packets to 255.255.255.255 from the command line?
From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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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.
>
> There is one in src/tools/regression/netinet/ipbroadcast
> You can build it with command
> # make WARNS=0
>

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 ;-(

Valeri

> --
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>
>


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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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