22 Sep
2008
22 Sep
'08
11:30 p.m.
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:54:17 PDT, John Jensen said:
She'd have to actually specify -b to ping a broadcast address,
Only true if you're pinging the broadcast address of a network that you have an interface on, or the system has other knowledge of the netmask/etc. If you're pinging a remote address, your system (in general) has no way of knowing if that .0.95 is a broadcast address for a /27, or a normal address in the middle of a /26 (or one of the other possibilities). (I've lost the original posting, and can't recall if the OP said if she was pinging from on-subnet or off-subnet).