> No, I think he's asking why the router with address 10.0.0.5 responds > to pings that have a destination IP of 10.0.0.4. The echo request is > targeted at a network address, not at the router. > > I've also observed this behavior (more than ICMP though - I have a > router responding to SNMP and being discovered by our configuration > management team, on the network address of one of its interfaces) and > would like to know more about why...
History. It *used to be* the subnet broadcast address, at least for BSD Unix boxes and a bunch of other equipment. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
