Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:50:23 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Beck Peccoz Amedeo <gea@masternet.it> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: new netstat line Message-ID: <9607011950.AA10503@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <31D19A5D.167EB0E7@masternet.it> References: <31D19A5D.167EB0E7@masternet.it>
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<<On Wed, 26 Jun 1996 22:15:25 +0200, Beck Peccoz Amedeo <gea@masternet.it> said: > The -current is giving me a strange 'netstat -r' result. I'm referring > to the line with ff:ff:ff... I didn't get it with the 2.1.0. What does > such a line mean? It represents a broadcast address. If you send a broadcast, a record of this form gets automatically created (because doing so speeds up IP output). > 10.0.0.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 1 47 vx0 ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ IP broadcast Ether broadcast broadcast route flag -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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