From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 1 12:50:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00673 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00663 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA10503; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:50:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:50:23 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9607011950.AA10503@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Beck Peccoz Amedeo Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: new netstat line In-Reply-To: <31D19A5D.167EB0E7@masternet.it> References: <31D19A5D.167EB0E7@masternet.it> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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