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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:15:59 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        "Ryan Stone" <rysto32@gmail.com>, "freebsd-net" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How can I send packets to 255.255.255.255 from the command line?
Message-ID:  <27209.128.135.52.6.1471619759.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5ef2e714-64ca-babe-3d24-57f205b6d5e8@yandex.ru>
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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
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