From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 20 01:36:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25855 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 01:36:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25830 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 01:35:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id KAA21673 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:34:26 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA04398; 20 Mar 98 08:42:21 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 20 Mar 98 08:32:40 +0100 Subject: Re: arp/IP to ethernet addresses Message-ID: <803_9803200842@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 19 Mar 98 23:19:24 "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote regarding Re: arp/IP to ethernet addresses "D> Might be better to ping the broadcast address once. "D> Unless is breaks your network with the load, I can't imagine it's "D> necessarily a *bad* idea. Doesn't mean it's *good*, but... It is optionally to respond to broadcast pings. Microsoft has chosen not to respond in contrast to most everybody else. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message