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> References: <CAFMmRNwXKhNUg35eYS4bE4UZQxTrAhYDatnokDuMtTT33SUMwQ@mail.gmail.com> <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 > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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