Nate Duehr wrote:

>On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:23 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
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>  
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>>Nate Duehr wrote:
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>>>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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>Isn't that what I just said?  " 'mommy' just sends out a broadcast  
>packet"...
>
>Hello Phil??  More coffee man!
>
>:-)
>
>Nate
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You said send out to all 10.0.0.0/8 which is about 16,581,375 IP
addresses (a few more/less perhaps)
A broadcast ping is physically addressed to the single IP address
10.255.255.255. Anyone on 10/8 should receive it.
--
Martin K

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