Nate Duehr wrote:
> Probably "mommy" just sends out a broadcast packet that all  
> "children" know to respond to in a certain way.  If your LAN were a  
> class A (e.g. 10.0.0.0/8) it'd take "mommy" a very long time to find  
> her "children".  :-)

Nah, probably a broadcast ping or packet. For 10.0.0.0/8, your bcast address 
would be 10.255.255.255, so send a packet there and every device on that 
subnet should pick it up. Check the packet over, see if it's valid, and 
respond to the sender if it is.

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