IP address

[Janina Sajka]

Glenn, I think you misunderstood. Pinging an address directly is one
thing. Pinging the network broadcast address and watching all the
machines on that network respond, is quite another. It's the latter
Windows machines don't respond to. That's either a curse or a blessing,
depending on what one is trying to achieve, i.e. it's a blessing if
you're looking for the machine that ISN'T Windows.

Glenn at home writes:
> I am able to ping my windows box on the same router with:
> ping 192.168.0.106
> and it comes back with all the needed info.
> I will try it with my wife's laptop when it is on the next time.  It is on a 
> wireless card.
> But I had to know the IP address of the windows box, so I did not try to 
> search for unknown addresses that were there.
> Glenn
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> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: IP address
> 
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> That's too bad since I have 4 of the bloody bastards on my network
> (they're for my wife and kids who haven't warmed up to Linux yet).
> That does seem to match my observations though; if I ping with
> something like ping -c2 or -c3 I may also hear from my other linux box
> and my Netgear wireless access point.  But yea, the windows boxes
> never seem to show up and they are the ones I want to verify -
> especially the wireless connected ones.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > As far as I know, windows machines don't seem to respond when you ping the 
> > broadcast address, only gnu/linux boxes respond, go figure.
> >
> > Greg
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040

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