Re: why broadcast on *.0 (network) addresses ?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:31:45 -0500


In message <19990127154230.46082@alamak.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>, Harald
Ko
enig writes:
+-----
| ping 134.2.170.0
|
| on another PC in the same network ? please not the broadcast setup below!
| ping to `134.2.170.255' are broadcasts, but what about packages sent to `134
| .2.170.0' ?
+--->8

.0 is the "old" broadcast address, used by e.g. older SunOS hosts. It's not
supposed to be used any more, but for backward compatibility .0 is often
accepted as a synonym for .255.

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