On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, TheGlenMann wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> (Is this list working right? - I'm getting lots of wierd stuff in the
> digests...but anyway...)
>
> Other attempts to find the answer to this have failed, hopefully this
> isn't too off-topic.
>
> We have several subnets connected via Frame Relay. Call them 10.10.1,
> 10.10.2, 10.10.3, etc. On each, the gateway is the 254 address, e.g.,
> 10.10.1.254.
>
> Sitting at a 10.10.1.n machine, I can ping the gateway 10.10.x.254 on
> every subnet. However, a ping to the broadcast address as
> ping -c1 10.10.x.255
> fails on some of the subnets (from outside that subnet). From within the
> subnet, the ping to the broadcast succeeds everywhere. Pings to known
> hosts (and 10.10.x.254) succeed always from everywhere.
>
> So, my question is, why would I be able to successfully ping to the
> broadcast address from within a subnet but not from outside the subnet,
> but only in certain cases? We have a mix of windows, FreeBSD, router,
> and other machines on each subnet. (I'm led to ask all this since where
> the broadcast doesn't work from outside the subnet, neither does DHCP,
> which is proving to be a real problem!)
Do you have Cisco routers connecting your frame's together?
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