Linux network behavior wierdness

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Fri Sep 5 12:39:14 EDT 2008


Dave Johnson <dave-gnhlug-list at davej.org> writes:

> 10.95.0.0 is an unusual broadcast address, how did you end up with
> that?

It's a /16 network.  10.95.255.255 exhibits identical behavior fwiw.

> Watch out for /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts.  The
> default was changed between 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 to ignore by default.

Ooh, I didn't know that, thanks!
-- 
Seeya,
Paul


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