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Date:      Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:05:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Maarten van Schie <anera@dds.nl>
To:        Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
Cc:        Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ping broadcast
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010281837020.3740-100000@oT.o8.com>
In-Reply-To: <39FAFE04.237B4DAC@gmx.de>

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When I ping broadcast I receive the following replies:

oT# ping 192.168.1.255
PING 192.168.1.255 (192.168.1.255): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.903 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=2.136 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.865 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=1.944 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.864 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.996 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.767 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=2.095 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.883 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=2.195 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.917 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=5 ttl=60 time=2.211 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.876 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=6 ttl=60 time=2.113 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=0.813 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=7 ttl=60 time=2.133 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.859 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=8 ttl=60 time=1.876 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=0.891 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=9 ttl=60 time=1.846 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=0.882 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=10 ttl=60 time=1.992 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=0.888 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.15: icmp_seq=11 ttl=60 time=1.910 ms (DUP!)

And obviously .15 is the last occupied IP in my network so I figurepinging
broadcast should return replies from the first and last hosts.

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Siegbert Baude wrote:

> > I just was wondering why when i do
> > ping 192.165.0.255 (the broadcast) nobody answers in my
> > local network.
> 
> Maybe because this should be 192.168 << ?
> 
> > ifconfig -a says:
> > ed1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >  inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> As you can verify here                               ^^^
> 
> Ciao
> Siegbert
> 
> P.S.: If this was just a typo, I donīt know what happens. Ping on the broadcast
> gives replys from all other machines, where the second and above answers are
> marked as <DUP>.
> 
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