On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:09:53PM -0600, Mazhar Memon wrote:
> I assume this is based on the 'new' reading of the John's original post.
> Assuming that the 10.255.255.255 ifconfig'ed machine can get broadcasts in
> only 10.0.1.0/24, that's what I would expect, but your reply totally
> through me off.
a machine configured to 10.0.0.1/24 and the right broadcast (i.e.
10.0.0.255) will not answer to pings to 10.255.255.255. A machine which has
a netmask of 255.255.255.0 and the wrong broadcast to 10.255.255.255 might
answer to pings which are send to 10.25255.255 even if the netmask is wrong.
The broadcast address of 10.0.1.0/24 is usually 10.0.1.255. On the other
hand 10.0.1.0 can also be a valid host address in 10.0.0.0/8 or 10.0.0.0/16.
Greetings
Bernd
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