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SubjectRe: why broadcast on *.0 (network) addresses ?
   Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:42:30 +0100

> why do I get
>
> 64 bytes from 134.2.170.66: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.4 ms (DUP!)
>
> when I run
>
> ping 134.2.170.0
>
> on another PC in the same network ? please not the broadcast setup below!
> ping to `134.2.170.255' are broadcasts, but what about packages sent to `134.2.170.0' ?

Same thing happening here.

All the machines on the LAN respond both to x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255
These are Windows , IRIX , Linux and who-knows-what machines.
Seems to be a TCP/IP "feature".

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