Jeff D: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Urs Thuermann wrote: > >> When I ping to the broacast address or the allhosts multicast address >> I get replies from the embedded and the self-built sysem, but not from >> the two Debian boxes: -- snip > if you want it to reply to broadcast pings: > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
For completeness' sake: this setting can of course be made permanent in
/etc/sysctl.conf. There should even be a template in this file's default
state.
J.
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