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why doesn't broadcast ping work?

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Problem

I have Freebsd as a router. Local network is on interface sk0: In my local network I have a computer(windows 7) that gets it's ip(10.254.239.2) from DHCP server on Freebsd. Ping to exact address 10.254.239.2 works fine. When I try to ping bradcast 10.254.239.255 from Freebsd itself nothing happens:…

Error Output

--- 10.254.239.255 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

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Fix for: why doesn't broadcast ping work?

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If you want to perform host discovery, don't use broadcast pings, just simply ping each possible permutation for a given subnet. It sounds heavy, but it actually takes seconds (brackets are important):

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