Re: "broadcast ping" message
John Polstra <[email protected]>
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In article <[email protected]>, Kan Cai <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a really dumb question. When I say it doesn't work, I mean there > is no output on the screen as you do point-to-point ping normally. > > Actually it works, it won't show anything just because there is no > ack for broadcasting. Using tcpdump can easily notice this thing. To make a FreeBSD system respond to broadcast pings, you have to set the sysctl variable net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho to 1. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"