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Date:      Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:25:40 +0200
From:      Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
To:        Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ping broadcast
Message-ID:  <39FAFE04.237B4DAC@gmx.de>
References:  <014701c040e7$4dffb2c0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>

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> 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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