I have a questions regarding ICMP packets traversing through Hubs and
Switches. If connected on a Hub I ping the broadcast address
(192.168.0.255) from a host machine (192.168.0.100) I get a response
from the address 192.168.0.1 with destination address as
192.168.0.100. How is this possible? I do not have machine with the
broadcast IP address.
On the other hand, when connected through a switch I do not get any
replies and only see request packets on Ethereal.
Also, please find the attached ethereal output
Attachment:
ping_hub_B.cap
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