Re: Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

2007-04-18 Thread Urs Thuermann
Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if you want it to reply to broadcast pings: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts Ah, thanks. This not only causes replies to broadcast pings to be sent but also multicast to 224.0.0.1 (which is allhosts multicast and essentially the same as

Re: Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

2007-04-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jeff D: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Urs Thuermann wrote: When I ping to the broacast address or the allhosts multicast address I get replies from the embedded and the self-built sysem, but not from the two Debian boxes: -- snip if you want it to reply to broadcast pings: echo 0

Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

2007-04-17 Thread Urs Thuermann
I have currently 4 Linux machines in my network, one embedded system running Linux-2.4.20, a system build from scractch over the last 13 years running 2.4.34.2 and two Debian boxes, both running Debian's Linux kernel 2.6.18-4-686. When I ping to the broacast address or the allhosts multicast

Re: Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

2007-04-17 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Urs Thuermann wrote: I have currently 4 Linux machines in my network, one embedded system running Linux-2.4.20, a system build from scractch over the last 13 years running 2.4.34.2 and two Debian boxes, both running Debian's Linux kernel 2.6.18-4-686. When I ping to the