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? Message-ID: <24501BC8-0BA8-405E-8870-E68507E7023D@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <27209.128.135.52.6.1471619759.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <CAFMmRNwXKhNUg35eYS4bE4UZQxTrAhYDatnokDuMtTT33SUMwQ@mail.gmail.com> <5ef2e714-64ca-babe-3d24-57f205b6d5e8@yandex.ru> <27209.128.135.52.6.1471619759.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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It is still limited to the "local network," about as harmless as a DHCP broadcast. - Charles Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > >> 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 >> >> > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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