Martin Klingensmith wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
>> Isn't that what I just said?  " 'mommy' just sends out a broadcast  
>> packet"...
>>
>> Hello Phil??  More coffee man!
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Nate
>>  
>>
> 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.

Is what I say!

Actually, it would be 16,777,214 if you had a /8 subnet mask. One network, no 
subnets, one network address, one broadcast address. 2^24 - 2.

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