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Broadcast Ping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Fortenberry)
Fri May 24 05:22:04 1996
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:51:39 -0500
From: Tony Fortenberry <tony@williep.backbone.olemiss.edu>
I have recently recompiled my kernel & since then I can't ping the broadcast
address for a subnet. Can someone tell me which parameter I modified that has
removed this capability. This procedure comes in handy when I'm trying to
diagnose a network problem.
This is the response I get when I try a broadcast ping:
ping: sendto: Permission denied
ping: wrote 147.62.96.255 64 chars, ret=-1
This is while I'm root.
TIA,
Tony Fortenberry
