On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:19:29PM -0600, Mazhar Memon wrote: > So what replies would I get if I did: > > ping 10.0.0.0/8 if you have hosts on the network with an BSD stack (which choose to respond to network pings in addition to broadcast pings) you will get replies from them. > versus > ping 10.0.1.0/24 you will get answers from the host 10.0.1.0/8 and from all bsd hosts on 10.0.1.0/24. Hosts on 10.0.0.8/8 will not respond. This should be explained in most ip faqs, which are up to date (i.e. feature classless ip and recent ip stacks). Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
