On Fri, August 19, 2016 9:46 am, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 18.08.16 22:29, Ryan Stone wrote: >> I want to test a change to broadcast packet handling and I want to >> confirm >> that 255.255.255.255 is still handled correctly. Are there any >> command-line >> tools in FreeBSD that can send to the broadcast address? ping >> 255.255.255.255 does not work correctly, unfortunately. > > There is one in src/tools/regression/netinet/ipbroadcast > You can build it with command > # make WARNS=0 >
Am I the only one who is kind of kicked out of the chair when seeing someone attempting to broadcast the who ipv4 internet: 255.255.255.255 ?! Someone explain me this is OK and is not a "big bang" level of noise ;-( Valeri > -- > WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
