Hi,
Isn't that address(255.255.255.255) supposed to be some special broadcast
address? I forgot for what purpose...I think it was for DNS..
Regards
Hari
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Wed Jun 21 2000 at 09:25, Scott Long wrote:
>
> > Jim Treadway wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, it appears that a broadcast ping does not add an entry to
> > > the ARP cache. Is this by design? Just curious...
> >
> > Yes, broadcast ping (in fact, any sort of IP broadcast) is implemented
> > using ethernet broadcast packets and therefore no arp lookup is
> > necessary.
>
> Strange. I can do:
>
> ping -b 255.255.255.255
>
> after which I do:
>
> cat /proc/net/arp
>
> and find a big bunch of new entries in the kernel's arp table.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
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