Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:22:31 +0100 (MET) | From | DAVID BALAZIC <> | Subject | Re: why broadcast on *.0 (network) addresses ? |
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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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