On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:23 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> 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.

Isn't that what I just said?  " 'mommy' just sends out a broadcast  
packet"...

Hello Phil??  More coffee man!

:-)

Nate
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