Re: Broadcast-doubts

["kiran puttaswamy" <kiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Binand Raj S. <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: Broadcast-doubts


> Vimal Mathew forced the electrons to say:
> > Hi,
> >       Our college has a local network with IP-addresses in the
192.168.0.0
> > (netmask 255.255.255.0) range. I recently tried out broadcasting a ping
with
> > a "ping 192.168.0.255" expecting responses from all the computers on the
net
> > that were onn and connected. To my surprise, only a few of my
neighbouring
> > computers responded. The kernel of the system I used was Linux 2.2.10.
The
>
> I believe you got responses from only those machines whose IP addresses
> matched 192.168.0.[1-255]. If there are machines with IP addresses other
than
> this set (which may include your Windows machines and the proxy server;
for
> example a machine with IP address 192.168.1.1), then set your netmask
> to 255.255.0.0 and try to ping 192.168.255.255.
>
> Binand
>
> --
> #include <stdio.h>                                   | Binand Raj S.
> char *p = "#include <stdio.h>%cchar *p = %c%s%c;     | This is a self-
> int main(){printf(p,10,34,p,34,10);return 0;}%c";    | printing program.
> int main(){printf(p,10,34,p,34,10);return 0;}        | Try it!!
>
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