It is still limited to the "local network," about as harmless as a DHCP broadcast.
- Charles Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Valeri Galtsev <galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu> > wrote: > > >> 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
