Broadcast Ping

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Janina,

I think you hit the nail on the head here.  There are only two Linux boxes
on the LAN at this time, and both are configured with static IP address
assignments as they both function as servers.  All the client machines run
Windows XP.

Thanks.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 2:23 PM
Subject: Broadcast Ping


> Hi, Darrell:
>
> Sorry to have lost the thread, but I've had several messages get denied
> on the list this afternoon and can't take the time to untangle all that.
>
> So, I'm not sure you got my reply to your question or not. If so, please
> pardon the duplication.
>
> The answer is that I don't know, but I suspect it could be a case of
> Windows clients which don't seem to respond to broadcast pings. Is that
> possible? Linux boxes will respond, but Windows ones don't appear to in
> my limited experience with this.
>
> I have recent experience at Charlie's shop where there are two Linux
> boxes which respond fine, while none of the Windows ones do.
>
> So, to smoke out Windows machines, I've turned to nmap.
>
>
> -- 
>
> Janina Sajka, Director
> Technology Research and Development
> Governmental Relations Group
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>
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