Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] RE: Ethereal-users digest, Vol 1 #541 - 14 m sgs

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From: "HOOD, Andy" <ahood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:58:17 +1100
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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