Re : Re : Broadcast-doubts

["Vimal Mathew" <m_vimal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
  Binand Raj  suspected that the machines which did not respond
belonged to another subnet/netmask. But, I repeat, all machines had
the same netmask 255.255.255.0 and belonged to the same subnet
192.168.0.x. That was what led to my message to this mailing-list.
To make myself clearer, all machines (Windoze included) were setup
with an equivalent of
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.x netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 up
route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
  The Windoze network-neighbourhood properties also show the above netmask & 
broadcast(belonging to 192.168.0.x). The proxy server address is 
192.168.0.1.
    The strangest thing was that a __Linux__ machine did not respond to a 
broadcast request while other Linux boxes did. There were no default routes 
set on my machine at the time of this test.
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Bye,
Vimal


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