And depending on how suspicious the network admin is, routers may not pass
the subnet ping.
Regards,
Andrew Hood
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't
even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -- Leslie Lamport,
as quoted in CACM, June 1992
-----Original Message-----
From: M.C. van den Bovenkamp [mailto:marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, 19 January 2002 07:24
To: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] RE: Ethereal-users digest, Vol 1 #541 -
14 m sgs
Jeff Parker wrote:
> You can try pinging the network
> ping 198.3.104.255
> which should elicit a reply from all the IP
> machines in the subnet,
Actually it need not. A host is not required to respond to a ping to the
broadcast address, although many do.
Regards,
Marco.
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