Hey that was fun! I wasn't as stumped as I thought! The answer given was one
of my original thoughts however the framing of the question eliminated that
as an answer. Being on a different netmask would certainly produce these
results... Thanks a lot Brian...LOL
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Michael S Garcia
CCNA - MCP - CCNP (soon)
Axient Communications
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> O well, I fudged my own challenge post. What I should have posted was:
>
> You were told to configure a network as follows:
>
> 10.1.1.1/8 router
> 10.1.2.2/8 hostA gw 10.1.1.1
> 10.1.3.3/8 hostB gw 10.1.1.1
> 10.1.4.4/8 hostC gw 10.1.1.1
>
>
> hostA cannot ping hostB or hostC. hostB and hostC have no problem
> pinging eachother however, but cannot ping hostA.
>
> hostA does get a reply however from all hosts if it pings 10.1.1.255.
> What do you suppose the problem is?
>
>
> Answer: hostA is configured for the wrong netmask, /24 in this case.
> Unicast pings to individule hosts will FAIL. A ping to the broadcast of
> 10.255.255.255 will actually get responses however........
>
> o well, sorry for messing up my own scenerio :/
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Brian wrote:
>
> >
> > Here is an interesting challenge, that may not be so obvious to some of
> > you.
> >
> > You were told to configure a network as follows:
> >
> > 10.1.1.1/8 router
> > 10.1.1.2/8 hostA gw 10.1.1.1
> > 10.1.1.3/8 hostB gw 10.1.1.1
> > 10.1.1.4/8 hostC gw 10.1.1.1
> >
> >
> > hostA cannot ping hostB or hostC. hostB and hostC have no problem
pinging
> > eachother however, but cannot ping hostA.
> >
> > hostA does get a reply however from all hosts if it pings 10.1.1.255.
> > What do you suppose the problem is?
> >
> > I'll let you know when someone posts the right answer.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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