"Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> writes:

Ought IP stack implementations not to refuse to reply to ECHO_REQUEST packets with destination address which are broadcast addresses?

Apparently some management packages search out hosts using broadcast pings. Not the best decision IMO. This was discussed a couple of days ago on bugtraq and I posted a Linux patch to cause it not to answer broadcast pings. *** How do you configure your router for that? no ip directed-broadcast. -- Shields, CrossLink.