Re: Access limitations(?), and moving to a simple LAN

In article <4db79265dbmlongley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Longley
<URL:mailto:mlongley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <4db757f5f0Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Jeremy C B Nicoll <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [Snip]
>
> > My router comes with address 192.168.1.1 so I've changed the IP
> > addresses of both machines. The hosts files on each now contain:
>
> > 192.168.1.1 router
> > 192.168.1.101 iyonix
> > 192.168.1.201 riscpc
> > 192.168.1.255 jnall
>
> > and from each machine I can ping all three devices. When I use the
> > broadcast address the response from ping is a bit puzzling:
>
> Can't remenber why but I don't think using 255 as the last number is a good
> idea. Plenty more to choose from.
>
He's not using it as the last number, but as shorthand for the
broadcast address. Still not sure it's a good idea, though. However, to
append his results back in:

> *ping jnall
> PING jnall (192.168.1.255): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.255: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=90 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.255: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=10 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.201: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.255: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=10 ms (DUP!)
> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=10 ms (DUP!)
>
> --- jnall ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, +6 duplicates, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.000/13.333/90.000 ms

If I ping 192.168.2.255 on this box, where my RiscPC is 192.168.2.99, I
only get responses from it too. The only responses above are from the
192.168.1.201 address.

Cheers

Mike

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